UPDATE: MyDD user Steve M directed my attention to the Center for Constitutional Rights site, where you can download a pdf file containing the judge's ruling.
Hot off the internets at The Hill's blog:
A federal judge today issued an injunction preventing the implementation of a congressional ban on funding for ACORN.
Judge Nina Gershon concluded that the ban amounted to a "bill of attainder" that unfairly singled out ACORN.
"[The plaintiffs] have been singled out by Congress for punishment that directly and immediately affects their ability to continue to obtain federal funding, in the absence of any judicial, or even administrative, process of adjudicating guilt," Gershon wrote in her decision.
Gershon said ACORN had demonstrated "irreperable harm" from the ban, while "the potential harm to the government, in granting the injunction, is less.
Conservative heads are exploding. I await an outraged statement from ACORN-obsessed Representative Steve King (IA-05), even though ACORN has done nothing wrong.
Speaking of ACORN, Editor & Publisher recently published an outstanding piece by Christopher R. Martin and Peter Dreier on the media's "false framing" of the organization.
I was very sorry to read this week that Editor & Publisher is shutting down after more than 100 years in business.
SECOND UPDATE: DKos user raatz is right: we should give credit to the 75 House Democrats who had the courage to vote against this bill.