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votes to defund ACORN...unconstitutional? really?
To:
President Barack Obama
Sen. George Voinovich
Sen. Sherrod Brown
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
October 14, 2009
Votes to Defund ACORN… Unconstitutional? Really?
Posted by Jeff Mazzella Print Email
Seemingly upset about everyone picking on their favorite community organizing group, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) want to know if Conress' efforts to stop ACORN from receiving any more federal funds are, get this… constitutional.
Specifically, Conyers and Frank have submitted a formal request to the Congressional Research Service ("CRS") asking it to analyze the ACORN defunding measures recently passed by the House and Senate to determine "their possible unconstitutionality and whether they could constitute an unlawful bill of attainder."
In addition, the two Chairmen want CRS to analyze the "recent 'sting' activity concerning ACORN" — referring to the brilliant videos commissioned and released by Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com - including a run down of "federal and state laws that could apply to such videotaping and distribution of conversations without the consent of all parties."
And they wonder why Congress' job approval ratings are in the dump.
Tags: ACORN, Barney Frank, John Conyers
cleveland , OH
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