Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes

My Way ^ | 6/23/05 | Hope Yen

[rebelyeller]

At what point do we decide enough is enough America? We are told change things at the ballot box, but vote for whom communist liberals or spineless Republicans. How much more destruction of our country will we stand for?

[TheOtherOne]

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[lepton]

Please consider sponsoring a new Constitutional amendment better defining what is meant in the 5th amendment the term “Public use” as only property fully owned by a State or Local Government entity and not otherwise leased, rented or transferred in anyway to a private company or person.

It doesn't need clarification. It needs literate judges.
This isn't legal nuance - it's functional illiteracy.

[rebelyeller]

I completely agree, the whole lot of them are useless spineless parasites it is time to fold up this circus tent and start again.

[Enterprise]

I'm sure it would take someone much more scholarly than me to fully flesh this out in a historical context.

1. This should anger all the citizens of this nation, regardless of political affiliation.

2. It does in essence, create a true ruling elite. It has taken the protection of the courts away from the common man and given it to developers. Now perhaps, citizens of cities, counties, and states can enact strict laws and ordinances to limit eminent domain, but even if they did, the courts would just come back and rule the ordinances and laws as "unconstitutional."

3. At the extreme, any property can be seized by cities for the public good. Stocks, bonds, pensions, vehicles, you name, it can be seized. I don't see any limit.

4. The ultimate remedy now is to either replace the Supreme Court or replace the Federal Government. It, and its confiscatory philosophy, judicially backed, must be replaced. I don't know for sure what could be better, but I know that this can not pass. It is intolerable.

[cubreporter]

then we should stand up and fight for her. Little by little these things are happening becuase we did not fight enough for our own country. It is being destroyed from within and we are all responsible for allowing that to happen. All of us.

[Kimmers]

AMEN!!!!!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Consumers should boycott the new developments, then. Let the developers waste their money building boondoggles that don't generate squat.