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Supreme Court Expands Power of Eminent Domain
Chicago Tribune ^ | June 23, 2005 | David G. Savage

Posted on 06/23/2005 3:26:27 PM PDT by Still Thinking

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To: Still Thinking

I have an idea. Let's get the DC City Council to condemn the Supreme Court building so they can put up a Wal*Mart.


41 posted on 06/23/2005 6:25:52 PM PDT by Nick Danger (www.iranfree.org)
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To: Still Thinking

I hope someone bulldozes their homes.


42 posted on 06/23/2005 6:27:53 PM PDT by CaptainAwesome2
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To: Nick Danger

Be more useful (and that's going a ways, cuz I HATE Great-Wall Mart)!


43 posted on 06/23/2005 6:28:18 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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To: Still Thinking

Guys

This is an issue both the far left, far right, and libertarians totally agree. Lets work together to remove these judges , or do whatever needs to be done.

I personally, have never written to a single politician. I always vote, minus one small election, since I have been registered. Someone educate me on what my options are. This pisses me off so bad I am having a tinge of activism hit me.

This ruling is so for a few elite in every city to run ramshod over anyone they want. I am simply DISGUSTED with the SC.


44 posted on 06/23/2005 6:39:33 PM PDT by Cruzin2fold (To get to the greener pastures in life, you have to step through a lot of fertilizer.)
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To: Still Thinking

Horrible decision.


45 posted on 06/23/2005 6:43:29 PM PDT by ncountylee
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I THOUGHT I heard something about this earlier ... Missed the first half, so I thought it was maybe something out of the 9th "Circus" court, that would be overturned by anyone that ever read the Constitution.

Cripes------

All I can say is:

OVER MY DEAD BODY.


46 posted on 06/23/2005 7:08:29 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Rethgryn
We agree with a lot of the DUmmies on this matter, but for distinctly different reasons: they see it, by and large, as a boon for HUEEGE CORPORATIONS; we see it as a blow to liberty.

Regardless, a few of them actually veered dangerously close to commonsense on this singular issue. Wonders never cease.

47 posted on 06/23/2005 10:14:13 PM PDT by A Jovial Cad ("A man's character is his fate." -Heraclitus)
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Now, as long as officials hope to create jobs or raise tax collections, they can seize the homes of unwilling sellers, the court said. This "public purpose" is a "public use" of the land, the court said in Kelo vs. New London.


48 posted on 06/23/2005 10:19:38 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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The problem is that private property has been redefined as public property. Therefore male only clubs are outlawed, bars are forced to be non smoking, etc. because they are "public accommodations". The government has made almost every facet of human life, except sodomy, the domain of "the public good".
49 posted on 06/23/2005 10:28:41 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Still Thinking

If I am reading this ruling correctly it appears the US Supreme court just made it perfectly legal for the city of New York to sieze the property that the UN is built on for purposes of building a shopping mall.


50 posted on 06/24/2005 8:12:17 AM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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