as you requested.
"Still, the dissenters provided a useful reminder that eminent domain must not be used for purely private gain."
No, it is merely correct thinking, not the result of the ruling.
That's the same theory, as far as I can tell.
This is such a blow to Freedom and the Rule of Law.
Not surprising the NYT would agree with the Supremes' decision. I heard that the NYT got the land for their new office building in Manhattan through eminent domain.
"Still, the dissenters provided a useful reminder that eminent domain must not be used for purely private gain."
Well if you agree with that then what is your point NYtimes?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"the "property rights" movement, which is trying to block government from imposing reasonable zoning and environmental regulations."
No bias here. It is interesting that so many liberals now support commercial developers, aka corporate America, the right to take people's property for economic gain. They must feel confident in their ability to corrupt the local decision makers.
I WENT BACK TO OHIO
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THERE WAS NO TRAIN STATION
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ALL MY FAVORITE PLACES
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WELL I WENT BACK TO OHIO
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I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY PRETTY COUNTRYSIDE
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THE FARMS OF OHIO
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The Post had an online discussion with a Georgetown Law Prof about the ruling. He seems to think the ruling will bring about affordable housing to the cities' poor. Living in the DC area, I've not encountered an instance where blighted neighborhoods were replaced with reasonably-priced housing. Alexandria is selling new-construction studio condos from the $300,000s.
So does this mean that Atlantic City can finally take that little old lady's house away from her and give it to Donald Trump?
http://www.ij.org/private_property/atlantic_city/
The only thing he got right was a statement of the glaringly obvious.
Why couldn't the drug company build it's offices just outside town? And when his home is torn down by the city to build a Wal Mart, I hope he is forced to live on the street, because the city isn't required to pay FULL market value.
How about turning the Slimes building into a gay nightclub. The city would probably make more revenue from it. That building is big enough for a whole theme park.
On another site, I got into a heated discussion with a socialists who kept insisting this supreme court travesty wasn't the result of socialism. He kept trying to blame it on "fascists". I tried to explain to him that socialism is just a vector to totalitarianism (be it fascist, communist, or whetever), but he refuses to admit it. yet he still bitches about how this is an unjust ruling.
The New York Times is, at best, the blind writing to the blind (or the blinkered). More likely, it's the socialist Judas Goat leading the blinkered (and the rest of us) into the totalitarian abattoir.
These people need to realize that when you get my property you will take the tools from my cold dead hands. If you don't like that I don't care because I am a Patriot and an American. These Communists that are comming out to do this to us can believe theyn will get a fight from me. God Bless America and all who defend HER!
Don't want to get labeled as a troll or worse -- but didn't they use the same rulings in the 1800s with the railroads?
posted elsewhere and repeated...
I don't like the ruling and believe it is a bad turn of events for municipal governments to take property for private development, but.....
It has been the way of America for a very long time, at least 150 years.
The railroads aquired all their right ow ways by the eminent domain process and they were very private corporations. The same is true for the electric power companies. The process has great precedent
Highest and best use sort of thing, of course.
and Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing separately, underscored that its goal cannot simply be to help a developer or other private party become richer.
And this will stop people how. Kennedy is a fool.
People need to get over the right v left argument. It is a tool of those wanting to control thought. If left is total govt by liberals, and the right is total govt by fascists, what is the difference? A proper political spectrum would be left side total govt, right side anarchy. That places all dictators on the same side, whether communists or dictators, and of course no govt on the opposite side. That way of looking at things does not work for the parties though. They would have to admit that both of them are for larger govt control, and less liberty for the masses. So they pretend to fight for the middle.
This "ruling" has really gotten under my skin. Perhaps moreso than Roe v. Wade (though I was a bit young at that time and probably didn't understand the issue too well). These rogue judges need to be removed from the bench - the ruling is clearly and obviously unconstitutional.
Got to get this meme established, thoughtomator!