[Steve Van Doorn]

“Public use could be cleaning up a seedy part of town with rundown buildings and liquor stores on every corner. Its all in how you define it.”

Yes and the SCOTUS chose to define it as any way for the city to make a profit.

[mudblood]

"Yes and the SCOTUS chose to define it as any way for the city to make a profit."

Clearly I've been defining it as removing problem areas within a city. The supreme court defined the entire issue as a non-federal issue and threw it back to the city governments to decide. If you have a problem with the decisions that your city government makes, try coming out for local elections (and I paint everyone with that brush, because the turnout is always pitifully low for these elections).