When the SCOTUS rearranges the wording in the Constitution at will, amending laws is of no use.
It is the SCOTUS that must be amended.
Supreme Court opened up a bidding war.
Economic "redevelopment" is misleading. The Supreme Court suggested to the states that the mere possibility of increasing tax revenue allows eminent domain.
This "home siezure" stuff will be revisited when - - and it is only a matter of "when" - - the scumbag politicians try to "redistribute" to some connected developer the home of a person who turns out to be a quiet, genuine psychopath with a high-powered rifle and a scope....
Tocqueville knew of the delicate power of the courts, and warned that corruption of judges and lack of perfect like integrity would endanger the balance and the country.
By the way, China has no land ownership, local villages distribute contracts of usage. We are aligning our laws and precedents with codes of the Socialist law.
Our precedent are deliberately pre-codified. It's a socialist orchestration by lawyers. The city knew they would get a pass at the Supreme court from inside sources and knowledge of the way the law schools are shaping the legal culture lately towards precodification.
This is a serious blow to common law too with dangerous consequences. It also threaten the Union as localities may invariably rule against properties owned by outofstaters, as well as force other states to enforce alleged property "violations" done in pro-land-grab states, at the expense of "free states"' business and good relations with good people.
Someone get us rid of scummy lawyers on political, communist and corporate shakedowns payroll.
The political party has established a soviet socialist system of unelected bureaucrats writing law that overlays a neo-fascist state where government controls private property.
The solution is to pass constitutional amendments in every state making any law based on socialism, communism or fascism illegal and thus unenforceable. The left wingers wouldn't know what hit them as law after law was ruled illegal.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")