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ACORN sues Congress for defunding it; Group says Congress bowed to Fox News

By _Raw Story_ (http://rawstory.com/2009/author/admin/) Thursday, November 12th, 2009

The community organizing group ACORN, recently walloped by conservative activists who posed as a prostitute and a pimp and tried to get employees to incriminate themselves, is suing Congress for defunding its organization. The group has teamed with the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has filed suit on their behalf. It argues that Congress’ move infringed on their Fifth Amendment right to due process, and their First Amendment right to freedom of association. The complaint was filed this morning in the U.S. District Court of New York. From a release issued to RAW STORY: Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a case challenging Congress’s unconstitutional defunding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The case charges Congress with violating the Bill of Attainder provision in the U.S. Constitution, violating the Fifth Amendment right to due process, and infringing on the First Amendment right to freedom of association by targeting affiliated and allied organizations, as well.

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