Posted on 07/14/2005 9:51:41 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
President Clinton yesterday added his voice to a growing chorus of Americans of various political persuasions who disagree with a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the government's use of eminent domain powers to take private property from one owner and give it to another.
Speaking to a conference of liberal college students, ...Clinton stated his disagreement with the court's decision last month, by a 5-4 vote, to allow a Connecticut city to carry out a redevelopment project by seizing 15 properties over the owners' objections.
...Clinton's views on the issue did not appear ironclad. After offering his assessment, he added, "I might be wrong." He also flubbed the name of the city involved, which was New London, not Norwalk.
In his speech, ...Clinton also criticized press coverage of statements his wife, Senator Clinton, has made recently in which she appeared to stray from a doctrinaire line advanced by abortion rights advocates...
"I wouldn't make that old lady in Norwalk sell her house," the former president said. "She was all 70 years or 80 years old. I thought it was wrong."
The former president used the example to illustrate his belief that few Americans are strictly orthodox in their political views. He said it was the first time he could remember agreeing with a dissent filed by two of the court's most conservative members, Justices Scalia and Thomas.
"I never thought it would happen," said ...Clinton, who once taught constitutional law... in Arkansas.
Property-rights activists, who have deplored the ruling, said they were delighted and not entirely surprised to have ...Clinton speak out against the decision.
"That underscores what we've seen since the opinion was announced, this outrage from liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats alike..." said Chip Miller, a spokesman for a conservative legal group, the Institute for Justice.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
http://tancredo.house.gov/
http://coburn.senate.gov/
http://www.house.gov/norwood/
http://linder.house.gov/
I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, but here's some.
*IF* ThatWoman (D-NY) achieves her lifetime ambition, where would they put her "lie-brary"?
Suburban Chicago, where she was born? Little Rock? Westchester?
"Clinton, who once taught constitutional law... in Arkansas"
Isn't that both humorous and scary.
The Bush Administration did not even file an amicus brief stating the government's position the case.
Demolition Looms for Landmark on Grounds of Clinton Library
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
November 02, 2001
(CNSNews.com) - Time is running out for Arkansas preservationists who are battling to prevent the destruction of an African-American landmark located on the grounds of the future Clinton presidential library.
The city of Little Rock has boarded up the 103-year-old freight depot and stopped all historical fact-finding tours of the building. The Arkansas Supreme Court, meanwhile, ruled Thursday that the City of Little Rock had the right to condemn the property and take possession of it from the original owner Gene Pfeifer under eminent domain to make room for the Clinton library.
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That tells us something doesn't it?
Either asleep at the wheel or supportive.
That is SO WRONG.
I have never ever ever ever never ever ever seen a hippo as ugly has Hillary.
The courts are slowly destroying what is good about America.
This nation will not last for long if things keep going the way of the judges.
LOL! Okay, I am putting on my "in general" hat :)
I disagree only in that the most useless man in America has no other thoughts in mind than his own legacy. I think that he thinks he helps his wife, but in true 21st century liberal fashion, this is only to help him feel good about himself rather than to actually help her.
Where he is concerned, what she has going for her is an arsenal of ashtrays and lamps to spike at him and that she knows where all of the bodies are buried.
Hey, it's MORE THAN BUSH SAID. Now that is pretty damn PATHETIC.
and Clinton has the guts to say what he said.
He is just posturing for his future (UN Sec Gen) and his wife (Pres).
The current site of the Library of Congress when she dismisses Congress and declares Herself Emperor.
??? I thought that they called him chIMPY McSMirk
They get a light bulb going off for just a second, and then the liberal thoughtinator buzzes, and like Harrison Bergeron, they forget the had a lucid thought and go back to hating Bush.
Great find!!
This issues needs to be Bush's litmus test for any Judge he nominates. Beat the Dems over the head with it...It's a winner!
I think that we could find her a porcelain throne in the meanwhile.
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