Alan Grayson has been kicking ass lately…most recently when he said Dick Cheney needs to STFU.

One of the “conservative right’s” loudest crusades has been their effort to undermine the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN), following the release of a series of videos showing ACORN employees behaving inappropriately (something Haliburton employees never do).

Hypocritical “conservatives” in Congress have done everything possible to strip ACORN of all federal funding.  Many legal experts have warned that these measures may be unconstitutional because lawmakers cannot punish a group or individual without a trial.   They even have a term for it…”bills of attainder“:

Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligations of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. – James Madison

So here’s 5 minutes during a hearing of the Science and Technology committee where Alan Grayson gives Rep. Paul Broun from Georgia a beat down about the constitutionality of “bills of attainder”.

And now a court ruling supporting Grayson:

December 12, 2009:  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

More here:  Judge Rules on ACORN Funding