The controversial community organizing group Acorn has not broken any laws in the last five years, according to a Congressional Research Service report released Tuesday evening. ... The [CRS] report found no evidence that voters attempting to cast ballots at the polls had been improperly registered by Acorn, a chief Republican accusation. The report also said that a sting-style effort to publicize the group’s allegedly illegal activities, may have broken state laws. ......Also on Tuesday, a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, rejected the administration’s request to reconsider its ruling that a House resolution barring the group from receiving federal funding was unconstitutional. Earlier this month a judge ruled that the law constituted a “bill of attainder,” legislation intended to punish specific people or groups. ...NYT
It's good to see Acorn off the hook, really off the hook despite administration efforts to keep it dangling. Some of their employees and/or volunteers behaved like idiots but they did no real harm, certainly not enough to deserve the kind of opprobrium the party of "no" -- well, really the party of religio-sexual adventures -- dealt it. Not to mention some piety-throwing Democrats.
