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Scalia Lumps Kelo Decision with Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade
ABA Journal ^ | 10/19/2011 | Debra Cassens Weiss

Posted on 02/14/2016 3:32:07 PM PST by ojeffers

Scalia ranked Kelo among the top cases in which the court made a mistake of political judgment, according to the Sun-Times account. The others were the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision in favor of a slave owner and the Roe v. Wade decision finding a constitutional right to abortion.

“My court has, by my lights, made many mistakes of law during its distinguished two centuries of existence,” Scalia said. “But it has made very few mistakes of political judgment, of estimating how far … it could stretch beyond the text of the Constitution without provoking overwhelming public criticism and resistance. Dred Scott was one mistake of that sort. Roe v. Wade was another. … And Kelo, I think, was a third.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: connecticut; davidsouter; flashback; kelo; kelodecision; newlondon; noob; scalia; trump
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To: Zeneta
Go Trump Go !!!!

Why would you post this here? Trump is an openly enthusiastic support of the Kelo decision.

21 posted on 02/14/2016 5:34:12 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: taildragger

I don’t recall Lieberman’s connection to it but the last I heard is that the property is a vacant lot.


22 posted on 02/14/2016 5:34:28 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: lewislynn
Not Obamacare, Gay marriage? Says it all right there. But RIP anyway.

What is this supposed to mean? The statement is from before either of those decisions.

23 posted on 02/14/2016 5:36:29 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: WTFOVR

The date on the post says 2011.


24 posted on 02/14/2016 5:38:27 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: gg188

And if Trump had written anything about Justice Roberts at the time, it probably would be that he shouldn’t be confirmed because he was too conservative. Trump wanted Kerry making the choice of that vacancy, remember.


25 posted on 02/14/2016 5:40:23 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

The omittance of a, /s tag, is for my personal entertainment.


26 posted on 02/14/2016 5:41:00 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: ojeffers

Scalia was right. All 3 rulings were awful.


27 posted on 02/14/2016 6:11:59 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: WTFOVR

Yup - a “timely” piece (sigh)

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Well no bias against Trump, no hit piece allegations, this illustrates Trump’s poor understanding of the constitution and his crony capitalist outlook.


28 posted on 02/15/2016 4:39:49 AM PST by Leto
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