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Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation's most notorious eminent domain project. But what of the promised building boom that was supposed to come wrapped and ribboned with up to 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues? They are noticeably missing.

This man whom many called a “stealth candidate”, allegedly getting in under the radar screen because of his manner but “one of us” secretly as some of my colleagues back then insisted, was anything but Pro-Life. He voted to uphold Roe in Panned Parenthood v Casey (1992)... He helped to author these deadly words: “Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt. Yet, 19 years after our holding that the Constitution protects a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy in its early stages, Roe v. Wade (1973), that definition of liberty is still questioned. We are led to conclude...

Justice Souter, of course, is one of the Supreme Court Justices who voted to empower all levels of government with a new power - the power to take by force private property and turn it over to another private owner. This is the essence of the Kelo vs. New London decision. This changed the Constitution from allowing the taking of private property for a public “use” (i.e. a road, a bridge, a school) to the taking of private property for a public “benefit” (i.e. a condominium or a shopping center). A young man named Logan Darrow Clements has taken it...

CRITICISM of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kelo vs. New London, which permitted the Connecticut city to seize several homes to clear the way for a proposed economic revitalization plan, has become personal. According to an Associated Press article published last week and an article in the July 16 edition of the Union Leader, “people from across the country are joining a campaign to seize Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter’s farmhouse to build a luxury hotel.” Justice Souter did not write the decision in Kelo, but he joined Justice Stevens’ majority opinion....More ominously, the campaign to punish Justice...

I Thought We Won The Revolution By Kevin Fobbs As our nation leads up to our celebration of its birth, we seriously have to wonder whether or not we will have anything left of our Constitution to truly celebrate. After the "Kelo vs. City of London" decision handed down last week, where the U.S. Supreme Court performed a seeming abrupt about face on the 5th Amendment and more importantly on America, when will the Constitution be returned to the American people? The U.S. Supreme Court's surgical disembodiment of the Fifth Amendment was, not a quick and deliberate action. Rather, it...