[depressed in 06]

I don’t think there is much of a leap from one to the other. Justice Kennedy will see the seizure as a public good.

[Political Junkie Too]

Hmm... "Public good" was a bastardization of the language "public use" in the Fifth Amendment, referring to the seizure of real estate for public works.

Could he just transfer that language to the Fourth Amendment, that referred to privacy and illegal search and seizure? The Fourth Amendment seizure was a protection against government theft of property, say, confiscating your car if it was used in a crime vs. just taking it because the police liked it.

Isn't that the kind of protection we're talking about, protecting our 401(k)'s from seizure by the government simply because they like it?

-PJ