His “apology” shows he thinks he’s a legislator, not an unbiased interpreter of the law.
That is exactly right. His "apology" to Ms Kelo and what subsequently happened has NOTHING to do with his sinister decision. Indeed his "apology" is really disturbing, explicit proof of his political (i.e. leftist) bias.
You just don't arbitrarily confiscate individual property so that the STATE can make money.
There is a discussion above about one of the worse Supreme Court decisions. It really is as fundamentally misguided as any decision in the history of the US relative to its past principle of free citizens. As purely "leftist" as any decision can be.
I think, but not sure, the Bush administration endorsed it. It should have been a major outrage and issue.
Johnny Suntrade
There is no right to private property in land. The government permits an “owner” certain privileges in the use of a piece of land for which the user must pay rent to the government(property taxes). Those privileges are revocable at any time for any or no reason. So far the government has deigned to pay some compensation for its reassignment of the use of the land due to the benevolence of government.