Posted on 12/04/2012 5:25:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I can’t remember, but ... isn’t this the second or third case Kagan has not taken part in ?
Color me surprised that any 0bama appointee would admit private property exists.
OMG RBG sounds almost Constitutional!
Government suing government. I guess we all win, or lose.
FUFG!
I suspect that the liberal justices may have joined in because the Federal government flooded a state forest. That makes it an environmental no-no.
As long as they are buggering each other, we, the people, get a little breathing room.
/johnny
I don’t see how the government can mandate we buy stuff but can’t take stuff. How is the first one not a taking?
Try mining the coal under your farm if the land is designated “prime farm land.” Now, that is taking.
I hope this ruling puts a damper on the efforts of environmentalists to return rivers to a “more natural flow”, periodically flooding areas to mimic the spring flood patterns that are now under human control. Deliberately flooding land and damaging it is going to cost you. This should slow down the rewilding of our rivers.
There have been many in which she was disqualified because she worked on the case as as a Government lawyer.
That it precisely why the takings clause is in the Constitution, to prevent that sort of abuse!
Poor California, they might see a rash of claims for past unconstitutional crimes.
As I recall, just in the last few days, a family was cheated out of the use of their oyster farm (Marin County, California) using this ploy (or the lame environmental or "global warming excuse," after being in business for several generations.
Time to talk to the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Or some obscure texting geek acronym?
Or perhaps a weapon preferred by a horribly congested terrorist: The Rogged Brabelled Genade.
Micromanaging nature is fraught with contradictions, but the sanctimonious a*****e petty bureaucrats all practice industrial strength cognitive dissonance.
Damming rivers and NOT flooding national forests is also a no-no, depending on time and place.
No one ever claimed these ignorant, brain-dead losers are consistent.
A very shortsighted attitude.
We, the people, pay exorbitant amounts to fund both sides of suits that go on for a decade or more, in some instances.
Job security. Screw We the People!
I don't even buy green bananas. I might not last long enough to enjoy them.
I maintain that paying a handful of lawyers to bicker is much cheaper than the damage governments can do to Americans by killing production, limiting freedom, and all those other things that governments do when they aren't fighting each other.
/johnny
She must have had an important appointment at the nail salon. She certainly wouldn't recuse herself for anything approaching integrity.
I contend that eliminating our freedoms a tiny bit at a time, setting and building on precedent, is what makes all those horrible things you listed possible. The elected leaders come and go, but the bureaucracy lives forever.
e.g., take James Hansen at NASA...
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