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Supreme Court Won't Hear ACORN's Appeal To Overturn Funding Ban

AP | Posted 08.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from ACORN, the activist group driven to ruin by scandal and financial woes, over being banned fr...

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Federal Appeals Court Reverses Court Decision That Barred Congress from cutting ACORN's Funds

John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Atlas

Despite a slew of independent investigations exonerating ACORN of misdeeds, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the decision that cutting off ACORN's funding punished ACORN without a trial.

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New Yorkers to Wall Street: Help with Foreclosures Or We'll Move Our Money to Banks That Will

John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Atlas

Civic leaders across the country should follow the New York Communities for Change coalition's lead. Either big banks become part of the solution or the rest of us will have to Move the Money.

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Ask ACORN

Kevin Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kevin Powell

When many non-profits need government funding to do critical work on behalf of the poor, the disenfranchised, or the sick, they become the primary focus of the wrath of the right, especially in a recession.

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Obama's Attorney General continues to vigorously prosecute Acorn? Will Van Jones be Next?

John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Atlas

A Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit seeks to stop Congress from singling out an organization for punishment without proper investigation or due process.

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ACORN Asks Supreme Court To Help With Ruling That Cut Its Federal Funding

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — ACORN is asking the Supreme Court for help in its lawsuit claiming Congress was wrong to shut off the activist group's federal fund...

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ACORN Vindicated of Wrongdoing by the Congressional Watchdog Office

John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Atlas

For years Republicans accused ACORN of corruption and used phony tapes to lead an effort to successfully strip the group of federal funding in 2009. Now, months later, the group has been exonerated from any wrongdoing.

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Fake ACORN Pimp Pleads Guilty; the New Yorker Adds its Voice to the Anti-ACORN Story

John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Atlas

I am beginning to believe that most well-paid liberal journalists, who are unfamiliar with urban issues and what it's like to be poor in a wealthy society, are quick to believe any story about an African-American group screwing up.

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What Progressives Must Learn from the ACORN Debacle

Rinku Sen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rinku Sen

The attack on ACORN isn't about ACORN alone. It's an element of a conservative strategy to discredit the Obama administration, destroy organizing capacity among progressives and quiet voices for change.

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ACORN Funding Cuts Unconstitutional: Judge

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A federal judge who found it unconstitutional that Congress tried to cut funding to the activist group ACORN has rejected a governmen...

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ACORN Scandal Offers Key Lessons to All Charities

John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Atlas

Acorn is getting a bum rap -- in the news media, among politicians, and even by some foundations. The attacks are worrisome not just because they have harmed an effective grass-roots organization.

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Judge Restores Acorn's Funding: Will Decision Inspire Democrats to Stand Up to the Right?

John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Atlas

Progressives should appreciate Judge Nina Gershon's courage to follow the constitution in the face of unconstitutional, bipartisan attacks against ACORN.

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Judge Blocks Government's Move To Cut ACORN Funding

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the emba...

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Ryan Grim

Rep. Grayson Calls For 'Corporate Death Penalty On Contractors' Who Rip Off Government

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the House of Representatives went after federal funding for the community-organizing group ACORN last week, the bill as written also affected "an...

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Ryan Grim

Dems Re-Defund ACORN In Latest Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an apparent attempt to deprive the GOP of a club to beat them with, House Democrats have re-defunded ACORN in a resolution that hits the House floo...

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House Votes To End Federal Funding For ACORN

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to deny all federal funds for ACORN in a GOP-led strike against the scandal-tainted community organizing g...

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