The liberal block on the ct obviously want to help their failing liberal big city governments.
Since the constituents of these cities continue to vote for those who keep them in squalor decade after decade.
This is the most blatant case of "judicial legislation" in quite a while.
Since the founding, it was illegal for the government to take your property for no reason beyond the fiscal value it posed to them, but now, it is legal.
There is no legislation to this effect. No change to the constitution. Just a 5-4 vote on the supreme court to make it law.
King George would be proud.
Had he realized he could have given us the right to vote, the right to own property, free speech, etc... and then simply had his judges decide what was right and wrong, he might have granted us the constitution and the rights we fought for.
Kennedy says the First Amendment "could not be more clear" in its declaration that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
"These Ten Commandments displays are not laws -- they clearly have no legal force," he argued. "They are not a religion. There is no 'Ten Commandments' religion. In fact, the Ten Commandments are revered and followed by at least two religions -- Judaism and Christianity. And, finally, a mere display of the Ten Commandments does not 'establish' a religion."
The displays, however, acknowledge God, he said, which is a foundation of the United States.
"Our nation came into being because we acknowledged God," he said. "Independence, the founders said, was something to which they were entitled by 'the laws of nature and of nature's God.' Without the public acknowledgement of God, who is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence, America would not exist."
Kennedy argued further that the "inalienable rights" with which American citizens are endowed, are guaranteed in the Ten Commandments.
"The right of private property, gravely injured last week by the high court, is guaranteed in the eighth commandment which states, 'Thou shalt not steal,'" Kennedy explained.
WHAT? DOES HE NOT REMEMBER THAT HE CAST THE SWING VOTE ON THAT "GRAVE INJURY"??? WHAT AM I MISSING HERE? DID HE REALLY SAY THIS?