U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Eminent Extortion Case for Review

Institute for Justice ^ | December 18, 2006

[MarkL]

While it's not going to happen in this case, someday, the Kelo decision is going to cost lives. There's going to be someone who refuses to abandon their homes, and decides to defend it.

Mark

[freedomfiter2]

I've sometimes thought in the past that the libertarian rhetoric you sometimes hear about the government basically being the legalized mafia was over the top. Now, not so much. This is friggin' outrageous.


It's not that the government is a legalized mafia, it's that the line between the illegal mafia and the government is so blurred.

[babygene]

" Don't people often end up in dumpsters over stuff like this?"

Yes, and that may be the ultimate answer... Anytime you back someone into a corner and deny them justice, you take that risk.

[MarkL]

Kelo, a travesty of the pinciples of our Constitution !!!

Kelo will go down in history as being one of the all-time worst SCOTUS decisions, on scale with "Dread-Scott."

Mark

[Obie Wan]

Amen !!!

[silentreignofheroes]

U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Eminent Extortion Case for Review..

Old Honest Abe's Legacy?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Because of the Kelo decision, Mr. Didden is now screwed...or will be screwed come Jan. 5, 2007.

The USSC will not rule for him in this case...no matter how distasteful it may be. To do so would be to admit they were wrong on Kelo and that won't happen.

[mware]

Hey we got a shot at correcting the most despictable law since Row Wade, Alito and Roberts may be enough to get a change in this law.

Good Lord, even the nuts at DU thought it was an outrage.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Another ping for you.

Yer gonna love this. It'll make your blood boil.

[Cheapskate]

"don't people often end up in dumpsters over stuff like this?"<p.Not to mention in the trunks of old Caddies too.

[gogogodzilla]

Looks like the mob will be making a comeback...

...as there are going to be a lot of small people out there needing justice - or in other words, a 'favor'.

Kinda how the Italian mob started in the first place, come to think about it.

[marsh_of_mists]

The constitution's been dead for some time now.

Dead!? It's "living and breathing"! /s

[mware]

It is not the same court that ruled on Kelo, and they have had a chance to see how governments have abused their ruling. I think this will not stand.

[silentreignofheroes]

Hey we got a shot at correcting the most despictable law since Row Wade, Good Lord, even the nuts at DU thought it was an outrage.

1. Don't hold your breath..
2. Sometimes my wife agrees with me..

[marsh_of_mists]

even the nuts at DU thought it was an outrage

It so blatantly and obviously goes against all that liberalism claims to stand for that they just couldn't not see it. What I'd like to know is how they managed to square it with the fact that it was all the "progressive" judges who voted for that filth and all the "facists" who voted against it. I'll bet it required quite a bit of doublethink to sweep that under the rug.

[Cheapskate]

city of chester:Blackmail is such an UGLY term,just consider this a special assessment."

[sionnsar]

"The constitution's been dead for some time now."
Dead!? It's "living and breathing"! /s

Rather like a zombie under remote control.

[mware]

I suspect Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, will want to overturn at least this aspect of Kelo. Not sure about Kennedy. Soder and Ginsburg are hopeless cases.

[mware]

Marsh I remember going over to DU, after the ruling and a few of them were blaming the conservatives until they were informed that it was Ginsburg and crew who got this thing through.

[marsh_of_mists]

Yep. But then they just popped an extra Paxil and passed out on the couch.