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To: Huck
Is this law not trumped by the SCOTUS? Supreme law of the land, and all of that?

SCOTUS said that takings for economic development could be allowed, not that they must be allowed. Kelo et al were saying the takings were unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court disagreed (I think wrongly). This means that states can take private property and transfer it to another, but if states pass a law to limit their power, there is nothing that would be unconstitutional about that.

6 posted on 06/24/2005 8:00:16 AM PDT by Koblenz (Holland: a very tolerant country. Until someone shoots you on a public street in broad daylight...)
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To: Koblenz
This means that states can take private property and transfer it to another, but if states pass a law to limit their power, there is nothing that would be unconstitutional about that.

But the multinationals can have that arbitrated at the WTO.

56 posted on 06/24/2005 12:36:58 PM PDT by Willie Green (Some people march to a different drummer - and some people polka)
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