Heritage — Defunding Acorn: Necessary And Proper, And Certainly Constitutional
The Defund ACORN Act does not meet the legal definition of a bill of attainder. There is no valid reason why the courts would not defer to the legislative judgment of Congress as to the regulatory purposes of this statute, particularly since its general provisions provide no proof of punitive intent and further the interests of not providing taxpayer funds to organizations that violate campaign finance and election laws-laws that implicate the very essence of our democratic form of government an…
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