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Actually, on DU there was a great deal of dispair that their favorite Court members voted for this, and that it was opposed by the Bush adminstration as well as conservitive court members.

I don't think this issue is dear to Democrats at all.

Alabama beat everyone else to the punch, signing a new law today to prevent such take-overs.

We will see which states follow, and which stated don't need to follow because their constitutions already secured the right to property.

But too many of these new "State Laws" play the "Blighted Area" game. If City Hall wants to declare 1/2 their City to be Blighted, that's Okay.
Once so "designated", the old "grab & sell rules" come back. "New Construction", in a "Blighted AREA", is automatically "Blighted" {unless City Hall grants a Specific Exemption}!

In Omaha,NE; Everything "East Of 72nd Street" was/is labeled as Blighted. That happened over 10 years ago. The Designation is Permanent, only City Hall can repeal it.

Warren Buffett's home has been "Blighted", for all that time. His home, like Mine, has Doubled in "tax valuation" since the Designation. But it is still "Blighted".

Replacing the "One Step Grab", with a "Two Step Grab", won't protect our Homes from City Hall! I don't want "greedy officials" to expect donations; before "revisiting" the Blighted Designation ON MY HOME, or on Yours!