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2009-12-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

House Ban on Acorn Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-12-12 13:40|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The court ruled that the resolution amounted to a "bill of attainder," a legislative determination of guilt without trial, because it specifically punishes one group.

Charles I is laughing in his grave. The royal judiciary has just taken back the power of the purse won in the English Civil War. There is no entitlement to the public treasury other than that determined by the legislative branch. It is not a bill of attainder taking money away as punishment, as in forfeiture, but the withholding of money that belongs to the people. The Founding Fathers would have impeached this judge before the week was out if this was attempted in their time.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-12-12 02:05|| 2009-12-12 02:05|| Front Page Top

#2 So it is legal for the government to turn the money spigot on but illegal to turn it off once it is turned on.

Look at this from the opposite perspective:

It is legal for government to take money from us to give to someone but illegal for them to let us keep our money once they have started taking it from us.

THAT right there is a telling commentary of the unsustainable idiotic philosophy of the left.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-12-12 02:48|| 2009-12-12 02:48|| Front Page Top

#3 interesting legal theory, that Congress cannot single out a group for punishment, but they can and often do single out a group for gain and benefit? Some are more equal than others?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-12-12 06:23|| 2009-12-12 06:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Does that mean that earmarks - which often benefit a single group - are unconsitutional as well?

My.... my....

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-12-12 06:40|| 2009-12-12 06:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Another Clinton appointee. Federal judgeships - the gift that keeps on giving.

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