Acorn is suing the U.S. gov't for cutting funds. Can I sue ACORN for using my tax money for illegal activity?

ACORN is doing what it does best: Playing the victim, blaming everyone else for its self-inflicted wounds, perpetuating false narratives, and defending the entitlement industry to the death.

According to ACORN’s lawyers at the far Left Center for Constitutional Rights, the congressional funding ban constitutes a “bill of attainder” – an act of the legislature declaring a person(s) guilty of a crime without trial.

Now, cue the world’s smallest violin and pass the Kleenex: ACORN’s lawyers say the group has suffered cutbacks and layoffs as a result of the punitive funding ban. The congressional persecution means ACORN can no longer teach first-time-homebuyer indoctrination classes and – gasp – the loss of an $800,000 contract to conduct “outreach” on “asthma.” Message: The demons in the House who cut off ACORN (345 of them, including 172 Democrats) are cutting off oxygen to poor people!

What ACORN’s sob story-tellers leave out is the inconvenient fact that non-profits were bailing on ACORN long before undercover journalists Hanah Giles, James O’Keefe, and BigGovernment.com publisher Andrew Breitbart entered the scene. Internal ACORN records from a Washington, D.C. meeting held last August noted that over $2 million in foundation money was being withheld as a result of the group’s $5 million embezzlement scandal involving founder Wade Rathke’s brother, Dale. o_O

Major difference: ACORN has not been convicted in court yet as an organization. The suit likely is intended to prevent an act of attainder from being enforced against ACORN unless or until that happens. Other not-for-profits bailing on ACORN do not have any relevance; they are not subject to the United States Constitution.

Reading Article 1 of the Constitution, I would be surprised if a judge didn't side with ACORN here. Strictly speaking, to cut off already awarded funds to a single organization from a specific program, while maintaining it to everyone else, requires that it be afforded due process. Otherwise, the entire program must be stopped and any awarded funds (even if spent) be recalled.

It's a Constitutional thing. ACORN has standing to sue because it is directly adversely affected.

A member of the general public probably lacks the legal standing to sue ACORN unless that person was directly harmed by it.

No, you can't. If people could sue organizations for using tax money to fund illegal activity, Halliburton would have been sued out of business 8 years ago.

Its all a coach, the left will locate a thank you to fund them, ACORN is merely too important for them to enable it die a sluggish and agonizing dying. as an occasion, in New Orleans over a million money replaced into dispensed to the NO fire branch to offer coaching and purchase rescue equipment, it replaced into diverted from the FD and given to ACORN. I honestly wish ACORN workers are as much as saving human beings whilst the subsequent disaster hits New Orleans.

This is America. You can sue anybody for anything.

Sure. And I will sue the Family, Blackwater and Wackenhut.

I love reminding you R-Retards of your skeletons.

Only if you plan on also suing Blackwater and halliburton.

Suing is not the problem. Winning is.

Sure, you can sue anybody you want.