[Kimmers]

Durbin should like this along with the rest of the communists....we are losing America

[fishbabe]

liberals don't believe in private property....no communist believes in private property...Thats why the dems need libs on the courts..they could never do this and survive an election..so,the liberal courts will do it for them.....

[fishbabe]

communists don't believe in private property...the dems know they could never do this and survive an election...So, they put libs on the court who do the dirty work for them......Watch all the hand wringing in congress and they won't put through any bills to protect the rights of property owners...They will just keep wringing their hands and say poor poor homeowners

[RightWhale]

dup thread

[sauropod]

Third thread.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The search bar is your friend. This has been posted at least a half dozen times today.

[inkling]

Another atrocious decision from the left side of SCOTUS. I've done some trolling and it looks like most lefties are angry about this too. It's good to see some common sense on both sides of the aisle; at least on this issue.

Now eminent domain can be employed for any reason whatsoever. Level a cluster of low-cost homes for a shopping mall? Well, it increases the city's tax base so it can be defined as "the public good."

I used to work for a city government -- they are drooling over the revenue potential. The city (Mesa, AZ) was hammered by the courts a couple of years ago for just this type of set-up. Sickening.

[Enterprise]

"The 5-4 ruling - assailed by dissenting Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as handing "disproportionate influence and power" to the well-heeled in America"

This opens up the door for horrendous abuses to powerless citizens. Books and movies have been made in the past about these types of themes.

Simon Legree is a developer and he basically owns the city council, or board of supervisors. He sees a chance to make a ton of money but a key piece of land he wants belongs to the widow Brown, who has two young children. No problem. He gets his buddies to seize the property and he pays very little for it. The widow Brown is left without her house and land, and Simon Legree and his bought-and-paid-for politicians get wealthier.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Supremes rule that that private property does not exists. Home owners are merely renting the ground from the state. Think about it when you get ready to sign on the bottom line.

[2001convSVT]

I can't believe it. This is outrageous, this ruling open the door for the full scale confiscation of anyone property for any reason. Do we live in a democratic society or a communist state? Un-freaking believable!

[LM_Guy]

I say don't just complain here but email your house rep and senators and demand a new constitutional amendment so that the 5 idiots on the SC will now know what "Public Use" means in the 5th amendment. Here is the text I used, use or abuse as you see fit

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As a Republican who very much believes in the power of individual freedom and the right to own property which has been a Constitutional guarantee and a bedrock of our American society. I am appalled by today's Supreme Court decision - "Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes" that allows a private developer to seize a persons land/home via a city's (or States) eminent domain power just so they can put a office building or shopping mall on it.

By the logic used, anybody with the help of the City Council or County Board could grab any other person's home & land if they are just willing to build a more expensive home on it or apartment units or a store etc. that makes the property more valuable, and thereby increase city/county tax revenues.

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.

[mict42]

A sad day in American History.

[auburntiger]

>....we are losing America<

What do you mean "are losing"? We lost it a long time ago when we erroneously assumed that we defeated communism. All it did was to go underground, change its name to liberalism, and now it raises its ugly head in the house, senate and supreme court. Krushev was wrong when he predicted that communism would bury us. We buried ourselves.

[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?

[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.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

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