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The "Gang of Five" strikes again!

[A. Patriot]

Everyone here needs to read The Law by Frederick Bastiat.

Bastait talks about "legal plunder" by government. Go HERE for a good copy of The Law.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This decision has opened the door for unbridled graft and corruption as developers will be looking to grease as many politicians as necessary to get the land that they desire.

Belly up to the bar boys...Happy Hour has just started! Pick your parcel and place your donations to the Selectmen in the glass at the end of the bar!

This decision will be noted in the history books as the first shot of the 2nd Revolution.

[Dan from Michigan]

Time for a new tagline. Michigan's Supreme Court overturned the old Poletown decision where a bunch of homes in a good area of Detroit were razed for an autoplant(that's no longer there).

SCOTUS needs some intelligence there, and Markman, Taylor, Young, or Corrigan will help.

[henderson field]

The Supremes are trying to flush the Constitution right down the toilet. Tell your congressman they have to be brought under control.

[tophat9000]

Yet per the left, we on the right are the money grubbing thief's while their the champion of the little man...

The Left's "Progressives" = Big Government power + Big money to be made by those in power = Your screwed

[Spiff]

I'm stunned by this ruling. I can't fathom how anyone who can actually read the U.S. Constitution and understand its intent could rule this way. Oh, that's right, the Constitution doesn't matter to some on the Supreme Court. They're too busy checking international law and reading goat entrails or something. We really need to start a movement to remove the "Justices" who would rule the way they just ruled. They are a threat to the Republic and an enemy to the Constitution.

[jsh3180]

The case in question comes from New London, Connecticut. A nice bluecity in a blue state. Libs tend to be pretty good at crafting law to take away property rights, which I have seen first hand here in the florida Keys, where 90% of the property is owned by government or private "conservation" agencies.

The developer of the property to be condemned is Corcoran Jennison, they donated $500,000 to the DNC for their convention in 2004. And much more to individual Democrat politicians.

I am outraged by this as well, but this is my two cents worth.

[RSmithOpt]

This SCOTUS ruling may have just been the pin to pop the bubble of the runaway real estate markets?

Comments welcome.

[stuartcr]

That's what's so great about our system...when the supreme court does something we like, they're great...but when they do something we don't like, they're not!!

[The Great RJ]

I fail to see how the SCOTUS can justify this given constitutional provisions against the government "taking" private property without compensation.

Are these New London home owners going to be compensated for the loss of their homes? They should be compensated not on the appraised value of the current home, but on the value of the land to the developer.

[babyface00]

God knows I don't like the results this ruling will have, but, as a Conservative, or what I thought was a Conservative, I'm wondering if the decision isn't consistent with Conservative belief.

Don't we believe that the Constitution is supposed to provide limits to the Federal government? Don't we believe that state and local governments should be independent of the federal government as much as possible?

By this ruling, the SC is saying that state and local governments are free to define eminent domain as they will. From a practical standpoint, most states are probably going to interpret that liberally, but how we run our states isn't the federal government, or the SC's problem. If eminent domain is abused, our recourse should be to our state and/or local legislators, not to the SC and not to the feds unless its an abuse by the federal government.

Sure, this ruling is inconsistent with the SC's ruling on other subjects, but taking the ruling by itself, doesn't it represent what we advocate?

Again, I don't like the probable results of this ruling, but that isn't necessarily the SC's fault.

[politicket]

They just stepped over the final line...

[spunkets]

Communists comrade.

[TigersEye]

FMCDHs

[Sloth]

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

[ArmyTeach]

Just think how this decision, this policy opens the door to massive corruption. Any public or corporate entity that wants desirable land will hand money under the table to members of the council responsible for making these decisions. Anyone with me on this? Does anyone really think that the government would pay me the full property tax value or real estate value of my 20+ year old house?

[meandog]

My God, even the wacked out over at the DUmp are agreeing with us:

click here

[ZULU]

"The city has carefully formulated an economic development that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including - but by no means limited to - new jobs and increased tax revenue," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority.

He was joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer."

Once again the evil coalition of truly viperine traitors strikes.

As the French radicals under Robespierre, they believe all power derives not from the people by way of God-Given rights, but from the State, whose well-educated technocrats know better than those untutored peasants.

[kevao]

Has Dubya commented yet? How does this ruling jibe with his "ownership society"?