{"id":1817,"date":"2010-04-24T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2010-04-24T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T08:01:09","slug":"good_news_from_the_supreme_cou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Good News From The Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associate Press yesterday, posted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/ap\/acorn-seeks-supreme-court-help-in-lawsuit-claiming-congress-was-wrong-to-stop-its-funding-91939069.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>, the Supreme Court has refused to hear&nbsp;a request for overturning the ban on federal funding to ACORN.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><em><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\">&#8220;The high court on Friday refused to throw out a decision by the federal appellate court in New York City. That court had decided to freeze a judge&#8217;s determination that Congress acted unconstitutionally in yanking the group&#8217;s funding.&#8221;<\/font><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from the money-saving aspect of this, I think ACORN should be denied funding.&nbsp; The federal government has been&nbsp;extremely lax in its oversight of the money it gives out to all organizations, and&nbsp;it is time to reevaluate all of this kind of spending.&nbsp; If money given to an organization results in a positive impact on the community, that is one thing.&nbsp; If money given to an organization results in highly paid staff accomplishing very little, that needs to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associate Press yesterday, posted at the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court has refused to hear&nbsp;a request for overturning the ban on federal funding to ACORN.&nbsp; &#8220;The high court on Friday refused to throw out a decision by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1817\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}