[IronJack]

Amazing. We own property by the grace of the State. And this from a "conservative" Court.

[Roccus]

Every property owner in the country that has a flag should hang it upside down. It is a demonstration that will NOT go unnoticed.

[satchmodog9]

I have already heard some of the morons calling this a power grab by the Republicans on the supreme court. While Kennedy and Souter were appointed by republicans they have proved time and again to be internationalists and leftists. George HW Bush put the nail in the coffin with his appeasement to the rats when he nominated this fool. Along with the ADA, Bush's' supreme court choice will go down as his greatest failure. He had an opportunity to change the court for a long time and he surely did. His brand of spineless appeasement got us another liberal on the court that quotes foreign law. We got what we expected from the Clinton appointees. There should be congressional action taken on this subject, but I doubt there will be any. Most of those fools now believe the Supreme court is the final say on any matter when the truth is we the people "were". This is what we get for ever giving in. Vote for a moderate and you vote for the left. By meeting the left halfway, we compromise and then lose in the end. I am going to go out to my front yard and pull my pants down and bend over. I suggest you all do the same.

[nutmeg]

Connecticut ping!

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[nutmeg]

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[libstripper]

This is really going to wallop property owners in California. As I understand it, Prop 13 currently bases property tax increases on the assessed value of a residence at the most recent time a residence was sold. Thus, a house in Davis that sold for $80,000 and has a current value of $650,000 can only be taxed on an assessed value of $80,000. Since SCOTUS now views municipal revenue raising as a valid basis for exercising eminent domain, there would be little to keep Davis from exercising eminent domain on "undervalued" properties, thereby forcing its residents to sell and repurchase and get stuck with about ten times more real estate tax than they are paying now.

Davis, of course, is only an example. This odious process could be used thoughout the entire state. Every California property owner now has a large target on his or her back. That's why it's so important to elect senators who, unlike Boxer and Finestein, will vote to break the DemonRats' filibusters.

[Sarajevo]

I read this on the CNN Money web site and was appalled. Now, our government not only has the ability to tax us out of our domociles, but they give themselves the right to overtly take our property, purely for their own financial gains and that of their monied supporters. Emminent domain is a farce, being used to by those with the financial/political backing to raze the properties of those who don't have the same financial backing.

Those same "Justices" should vacate their own lavish dwellings for a Target, Wal-Mart, or Home Depot!

Perhaps it is time to buy more ammo.

[El Gato]

Indeed, while many state courts in the mid-19th century endorsed “use by the public” as the proper definition of public use, that narrow view steadily eroded over time.

Thus the Court finally admits that they have been making law, rather than interpreting it,applying it, or enforcing it. They've been changing meanings in those cases, like this one, where they should have been applying the original meanings. They've been doing those things for over 100 years.

I don't know how we fix this structurally, but we got git 'er done somehow.

[GatorGirl]

Probably one of the WORST Supreme Court decisions ever rendered. It's only slightly less odious than Roe v. Wade!

I'm just sick about this...

[THEUPMAN]

Well once the commerce clause was expanded to include everything the Goverment wanted to control, how long did you think it would take to find a clause that could be expanded to include everything the government wanted to take?

[Finger Monkey]

ping for intese scrutiny

[P8riot]

Locked and loaded. Molon Labe. I won't go down without a fight.

[P8riot]

Locked and loaded. Molon Labe. I won't go down without a fight.