{"id":748,"date":"2009-09-22T18:46:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2009-09-22T20:07:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T00:07:02","slug":"congress-votes-to-defund-acorn-unconstitutional-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/748\/congress-votes-to-defund-acorn-unconstitutional-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Votes to Defund ACORN&#8230; Unconstitutional?  Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; efforts to stop ACORN from receiving any more federal funds are, get this&#8230; <em>constitutional<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Conyers and Frank have\u00a0submitted <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/59809-frank-conyers-come-to-acorns-aid\" target=\"_blank\">a formal\u00a0request<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0the Congressional Research Service (&#8220;CRS&#8221;)\u00a0asking it\u00a0to analyze the\u00a0ACORN defunding measures recently passed by the House and Senate to determine\u00a0&#8220;their possible unconstitutionality and whether they could constitute an unlawful bill of attainder.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the two Chairmen want\u00a0CRS to analyze the\u00a0&#8220;recent &#8216;sting&#8217; activity concerning ACORN&#8221; &#8212; referring to\u00a0the brilliant\u00a0videos commissioned and released by Andrew Breitbart&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BigGovernment.com<\/a>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0\u00a0including a run down\u00a0of\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;federal and state laws that could apply to such videotaping and distribution of conversations without the consent of all parties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And they wonder why Congress&#8217; job approval ratings are in the dump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; efforts to stop ACORN from receiving any more federal funds are, get this&#8230; constitutional. Specifically, Conyers and Frank have\u00a0submitted a formal\u00a0request\u00a0to\u00a0the Congressional Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,164,163],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-acorn","tag-barney-frank","tag-john-conyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}