{"id":190581,"date":"2009-11-12T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/12\/i-was-expecting-this\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T21:11:00","slug":"i-was-expecting-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/12\/i-was-expecting-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Expecting This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACORN has filed suit in Federal Court against the Defund ACORN Act, claiming that it is an  <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/11\/acorn_suing_us_over_unconstitutional_defunding_bil.php?ref=fpa\">unconstitutional bill of attainder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, duh, it is an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_of_attainder#American_usage\">unconstitutional bill of attainder<\/a>, as it says clearly in the bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This Act may be cited as the \u2018Defund ACORN Act\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I figure that any judge with two braincells strike this struck down in about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, both Bushes and Reagan appointed a lot of folks who lacked the requisite two brain cells, so we will see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACORN has filed suit in Federal Court against the Defund ACORN Act, claiming that it is an unconstitutional bill of attainder. Well, duh, it is an unconstitutional bill of attainder, as it says clearly in the bill: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the \u2018Defund ACORN Act\u2019. I figure that any &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1097,972,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-constitution","category-justice","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}