Link, please. Cuzzzz, that's not what I've read.
From the Wall Street Journal, Friday August 13, 5:12PM
Congress Had Right to Bar Acorn Funding, Appeals Court Rules
Congress acted within its authority when it blocked federal funding last year for community activist group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, a federal appeals court has ruled.
On Friday, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge's ruling that cutting off Acorn's funding was unconstitutional. The judge (Brooklyn federal district judge Nina Gershon, a left-wing activist judge) had found that Congress had improperly passed a law that determines guilt and inflicts punishment without Acorn having the protections of a trial.