“The justice said Monday that forcing raisin growers to give up part of their annual crop without full payment is an illegal confiscation of private property.”
Regulations.
“Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts said the government must pay “just compensation” when it takes personal goods just as when it takes land away.”
Oh great, Roberts just created a new subsidy. I guess
he thought he was getting rid of a bad law.
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only dissenter. She said the program did not deprive the Hornes of all their property rights; it just limited the amount of potential income they could earn from it.”
HaaHaaaaa(Billroy)haaaaaaaaa. “of all their property rights”
PfffhoohahahahHaaaaaaa
“it just limited the amount of potential income they could earn from it.”
This woman is an idiot. Naa it won’t violate all of your
body if I just cut your arms off. She is way too incompetent
for .......anything. Even assistant crack whore.
Specifically, she screwed-up the law. The Not-So Wise Latina confused regulatory takings from a standard taking. A regulatory taking occurs when the government causes the property to be worthless (e.g., declaring a person land to "wetlands"). A standard taking (sometimes called "eminent domain") is when the government takes physical possession of the property. A standard taking can occur even if there is still some economic benefit to the former property owner. Sotomayor kept confusing these two, claiming that there was no standard taking because (in her opinion) there still would have been some economic benefit to the citizen from the raisins that would have been confiscated.
Fortunately, the other Justices were wiser than the Wise Latina.