[tucker_is_in_texas]

"This is positively the WORST SCOTUS decision I have ever heard of."


SCOTUS has made alot of bad decisions since 1791, while Kelo is right up there, I'd chose Dred Scott as the number 1, foolish decision, with Roe as a close 2nd.

tuck

[Paleo Conservative]

SCOTUS has made alot of bad decisions since 1791, while Kelo is right up there, I'd chose Dred Scott as the number 1, foolish decision, with Roe as a close 2nd.

Both decisions were published two days after a presidential inauguration, Dred Scott on March 6, 1857 and Roe v Wade on January 22, 1973. It's pretty obvious the Supreme Court in both cases knew the decision would be politically explosive.

[rmlew]

Are we going to list the decisions that tick us off?
You mention Roe, but what of Doe and Casey?
Dred Scott probably deserves first place, if only because it was rectified only by a Civil War, which it helped precipitate.
Plessy v Fergueson and its oppositve Brown v Board of Ed were pretty bad.
Freedman v. Maryland and Griswold v Connecticut for being both specious in reasoning and pernicious in effect.
STATE OF MISSOURI v. HOLLAND for limiting our right according to international law.
U. S. vs. Miller, QUILICI vs. VILLAGE OF MORTON GROVE and Emerson for making the Second Ammendment virtually irrelevent.
Buckley v Valeo and McConnell v F.E.C. killing free speech.
Nebbia v New York for allowing state price controls.
Everson and Lemmon on religion.
Afroyim v. Rusk and United States v. Wong Kim Ark on citizenship

Perhaps we should just stick to the current court. Here is my list from the last 11 years:
Kelo vs. New London
McConnell v F.E.C.
Bollinger v Grutter.
Lawrence v. Texas
Deck v. Missouri (the prisoner was schackled during sentencing, unfairly prejudicing the jury THAT CONVICTED HIM.)
And just for the fun of it we have a pair of decisions, basically maid by Justice O'Connor in McCreary County, Kentucky et al. v. ACLU of Kentucky et al and Van Orden v. Perry. The McCreary Country decision is egregiously anti-religious. However, I believe that both decisions should be locked at together. The Supreme Court has decided that our country is based on diversity.
Bush v Gore may have had the correct practical outcome, but it was made on specious reasoning that federalizes elections. The simply fact is that Article II leaves the decision of choosing electors to the State Legislatures. (Had the legislatures chosen a system where non-biased electors chose a candidate to whom they would award their vote based on picking a name out of a hat, it would be Constitutional.- Damaging to the Republic, but still Constitutional.-)

Ron
PS. Just for the fun of it, why not have Kelo et all,claiming emotional distress, file a class action lawsuit against Pfizer, the City of New London, and the courts.
It is a spurious lawsuit, but I'd love to hear the ABA whine about it.

[infowarrior]

SCOTUS has made alot of bad decisions since 1791, while Kelo is right up there, I'd chose Dred Scott as the number 1, foolish decision, with Roe as a close 2nd.

Disagree with the priorities you've stated. Roe v. Wade first, Dred Scott second (only because Roe v. Wade outright kills people, not merely permits them to be "chattels"...)

Third is Plessy v. Ferguson (1898), which was the legal underpinning of "Jim Crow". Kelo rates a very close fourth...

the infowarrior