Katrina Housing Program on Hold (DC Court of Appeals until Mar..grr

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Katrina-Housing.html

December 22, 2006
Katrina Housing Program on Hold
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 3:22 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court told the Bush administration Friday that it does not need to immediately restart a housing program for thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims.

The ruling suspends an order by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who said last month that the Federal Emergency Management Agency violated the Constitution when it eliminated short-term housing assistance. Leon said the agency didn't explain its reasoning and provided victims only confusing computer-generated codes to explain its decision.


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The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit puts that on hold at least until March.

..very little more at link.

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[partylessinOhio]

1. Legislating a death knoll to the Katrina victims from the bench I guess.

Merry Christmas in America Katrina victims,

ask not what your country...

[journalist3072]

2. Katrina housing program on hold

Katrina housing program on hold

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
Fri Dec 22, 6:37 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court told the Bush administration Friday that it does not need to immediately restart a housing program for thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims.

The ruling suspends an order by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who said last month that the Federal Emergency Management Agency violated the Constitution when it eliminated short-term housing assistance. Leon said the agency didn't explain its reasoning and provided victims only confusing computer-generated codes to explain its decision.

Under Leon's order, FEMA appeared on track to restore housing payments to families in Texas.

"Maybe we can get this thing jump-started and get these people a roof over their heads before Christmas," Leon said Monday.

The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit puts that on hold at least until March, when the court will hear arguments in the case.


Entire article found at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061222/ap_on_go_ot/katrina_housing

[Contrite]

3. This is just sick.

So much for Bush's promises to rebuild NOLA. Of course he didn't say that he was going to rebuild for EVERYONE there, now did he?

Lying by omission, still a lie.

I can't imagine what life is like for these poor people who have been left homeless. It must be hell.

[Quantess]

4. Wouldn't it be nice

if the military could devote even a fraction of the effort in Iraq, to rebuilding New Orleans and the gulf coast?

[shireen]

5. haven't these people suffered enough??? nt

[Pastiche423]

6. I would love to know

who sat on that federal appeals court. Every single name. It's been almost a year and a half since Katrina and there is no need to immediately restart a housing program for thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims???

Fuck them!

Another BIG FAT LIE that little lord pissypants said on National tv.

[dem91203]

7. Katrina housing program on hold

This response from the D.C. appellate is to be expected . Once a certain level of abstraction is reached in the court system the " warm and fuzzy " judge or panel of such disappears. All that remains is the law dispensed with at best cold impartial efficiency.

Katrina is an example of the George Walker Bush Administration at it's worst. Bush made a value judgment in support of his 2001 Tax Cut⁽¹⁾ Bush rolled the dice that there would not be a cat 4+ hurricane like Katrina near New Orleans. Under this assumption Bush cut SELA funding to the point of stopping all work on the New Orleans levy system^{(2) (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)}. The results speak for themselves

There are thousands who will never forget Katrina and the life altering incidents that flowed from Katrina's arrival in New Orleans. Simply put Bush actions amounted to Negligent Homicide .
What would you do for a few dollars more, we have seen what the The F.O.G. Elite are willing to do.

For the past 6 years AMERICA has suffered under the Rape and Pillaging of the U. S. Treasury by the SADISTIC NE-CON EVANGELICAL ACTIVISTS in congress . The fundamental disregard for human life is an integral part of the SADISTIC NE-CON EVANGELICAL ACTIVISTS belief system. There is a school of thought that says that Bush's neglect of SELA was no accident and part of a Delay's House Conference of scandal redistricting program. Looking to clean the Democrats out of New Orleans . Katrina did her job to support this illicit enterprise. Who says Republicans don't believe in global warming.
I'll bet the RNC is cheering this panel of judges on once the Poor of New Orleans are spread all over the south the GOP wants these poor folks to stay out of New Orleans.