But how can anyone argue that a law punishing the Redskins for giving offense by stripping a trademark would be anything other than a bill of attainder?
He sued to overturn the law on a variety of constitutional grounds, including that violated his equal-protection rights and it was a bill of attainder singling his business out for legislative punishment.
Remember when Congress banned federal funding for Acorn and the group, along with media lefties like Rachel Maddow, argued it was a bill of attainder, a law designed to punish a particular wrong, properly a judicial function?