This is a pleasant surprise. Eric Holder must be on vacation.
The Hill reported that the Department of Justice is urging the federal court to take another look at the constitutionality of the federal government cutting off Acorn’s funding. That organization shouldn’t receive another cent from the taxpayers.
While a federal judge previously ordered a preliminary injunction on that ban, the Justice Department this afternoon asked a New York District Court to revisit that ruling in light of new facts unearthed from ACORN’s own internal review.
Those details, wrote the department, “might reasonably be expected to alter the Court’s previous conclusions, and the Court should reconsider its injunction as a result.”
The latest chapter in the ACORN saga began earlier this month, after Judge Nina Gershon declared unconstitutional a bill that in part stripped the community organization of some of its funding.
ACORN’s foes, however, quickly lambasted Gershon’s decision, charging she was a liberal, activist judge. Some, including Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), even encouraged ACORN opponents to take the fight “all the way to the Supreme Court.”
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In this particular instance, DOJ posits that ACORN’s own investigation warrants another look at the case.
The community group commissioned former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger this month to examine its business practices, after a series of videos depicting its employees engaging with a disguised pimp and prostitute went viral on the Web.
Harshbarger offered stern words for ACORN, citing its employees for poor judgment. But he ultimately found the group did not violate any federal laws.
Still, the DOJ filing on Thursday said the facts in Harshbarger’s independent review, combined with ACORN’s “uncontroverted, longstanding management problems,” is reason enough to consider for a second time whether it should receive any tax dollars. …
The Obama administration has calculated that this has become too much of a hot potato; for right now. With election cycles somewhat nearing and ACORN being so high profile, they are going to churn this and delay to make it look good. We’ll see how tenaciously Holder pursuits this, but if the 2010 elections aren’t too damaging and in 2012 Obama wins a second term as a lame duck, Katie bar the door, the only damage to come from cozying up to outfits like ACORN will be to the Democrat party itself and being the incredible narcissist that he is, Obama won’t care a whit.
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