Suzette Kelo's house
Site of Suzette Kelo's house today
Posted on 05/18/2021 9:07:22 PM PDT by DoodleBob
IBTRobertsHate.
Agreed. Kelo was a disgrace. Totally irrational ruling.
Kelo was wrong.
Not the first time, won’t be the last.
Obergfell (or whatever it is) is right up there with bad decisions.
I just learned that, in addition to Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito each wrote a separate dissenting opinion in that case, that Roberts read part of his dissenting opinion from the bench, his first time doing so since joining the Court in 2005.
Site of Suzette Kelo's house today
Great movie. Absolutely disgusting decision.
SCOTUS will never overturn Kelo.
One of the court’s worst decisions.
All of them need to b eoverturned.
Night table reading for insomniacs:
Jeff Benedict’s Little Pink House: The Back Story of the Kelo Case
Book Review
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/302394446.pdf
It was Pfizer (the uh... vaccine maker who used a subcontractor, who does little research to this day. Pfizer has acquired and then fired— many major US formerly independent pharma research/marketers: Wyeth, Upjohn,Parke-Davis to name a few) who did all this greasing of New London civic types during Pfizer’s acquisition of Wyeth which had the New London facility.
A well known local fact is that the Pfizer types who were at their Groton, CT facility (the big money mngmt types) took the ferry over from Long Island— no commutes through NY to CT or need to live over there. In any event,in November 2009, Pfizer announced plans to close the New London facility following the company’s merger with Wyeth. The facility was closed and finally sold in 2011— they never intended to expand in the first place (it was a merger tax/negotiation move). The “redevelopment” land was used for hurricane debris and is now... a dump. Twisting condemnation for their convenience.Not the first time.
Clarence Thomas dissented with this sharp observation and a originalist dissent, saying the Court precedent’s were flawed, having replaced the Fifth Amendment’s public use clause with a “public purpose” test:
“This deferential shift in phraseology enables the Court to hold, against all common sense, that a costly urban-renewal project whose stated purpose is a vague promise of new jobs and increased tax revenue, but which is also suspiciously agreeable to the Pfizer Corporation, is for a ‘public use.’....”
He was right. Look how much damage these paid off creeps did to their “community”.
To clarify— Pfizer’s R&D HQ is still in Groton, and they still take the ferry (those who live in huge places on Long Island on the LI Sound side, am guessing— not that there’s anything wrong with that. Bernie Madoff late resident of Butner Federal Correctional Unit, had a place on Montauk Point- and wonder if the view was worth what happened to him and his sons/wife).
Should
Overturning KELO would be one of the greatest victories for private property/owning rights. The original case was legally bullshit and involved a corrupt Democrat/business cabal’s plans for making private land into a shopping center (in which some reportedly had interests or were getting bribes to vote for).
they should
an utterly horrible ruling
For the Socialist on the Court, it was a NO BRAINER.
Individuals shouldn’t own property.
Little Pink House The Kelo House, also known as the Little Pink House, was built in 1890 in a residential area of New London by John Bishop, a prominent local carpenter. It had various owners after Carpenter’s death in 1893 and few years later was moved to the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London. In the late 1980s, the Little Pink House and the house next to it were restored by the preservationist, Avner Gregory. On the market for many years, the house was not occupied until Susette Kelo moved in in 1997. When the City of New London sought to use the right of eminent domain to acquire the neighborhood for private development (which would bring in more tax money) it started a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court in 2005. Although Kelo lost in Kelo vs. City of New London, the public reaction to the abuse of eminent domain laws led to citizen activism and new reform legislation in favor of property owners. Three years after the decision, in 2008, the house was rededicated on a new site on Franklin Street in New London. The house had been reacquired and moved by Avner Gregory and stands as a monument, with an explanatory plaque out front, to the battle over eminent domain. A new book about the case, Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage, by Jeff Benedict, a great read.
This is what the piece of land that Kelo's house occupied now looks like:
After the houses were destroyed, nothing happened. No R&D complex, no gentrified condos, no influx of high-net-worth PhDs. Nothing.
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