Obama will just give them eminient domain powers so the next case will tie-up the entire federal court system for thirteen years
Bump
ping!
Every American should be screaming mad that it takes intervention from the SCOTUS to allow private citizens to defend themselves against unelected rogue officials from the EPA.
This disgusting pile of crap needs to be done away with.
The EPA will still run these poor people through the wringer for years. They will probably spend most of all they have and they will still not be building the home of their dreams. I would not be surprised to learn that they have had to file for bankruptcy and give up this fight a few years from now.
The worst part of this is that this should not be a fight. This is another example of good intentions gone bad. Nixon tried to pacify the ecology movement by creating the EPA and it has been taken over by radicals with no concern for the constitution. The EPA has become a terrorist organization and no one in government is defending us against them.
In order to enlighten what Thomas Jefferson called "the American mind" of today to the Founding generation's wisdom and reasoning on their strong Constitutional limits protecting "the People's" rights to property, a reading of the following words of John Adams might be in order. They can be found and downloaded from here.
"Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free." (Underlining added for emphasis)
After reading Adams' words, and seeing what has happened today,can we doubt the wisdom of his words?
Thank goodness. The elitists will ignore this decision, but it’s better for the Republic they have the decision.
WHY did the administrations’s EPA fight this? Are they INSANE???
Who was the law firm representing the couple. Was it the Pacific Legal Foundation?
You know what is really maddening, that even if this poor couple win their eventual case against the EPA, the American people still lose, cause the EPA is just burning your money (and this couples).
$175,000 per day? Man that can really deplete your savings account real fast!
What's next will likely be a hearing. It sounds like the terms of the compliance order or if jurisdiction applies wasn't raised from this case or argued.
IMHO...sounds like the lawyers won on this one!!