Posted on 06/23/2005 12:12:48 PM PDT by truth49
We need a constitutional amendment eliminating the Supreme Court.
TRAITORS!!!!!!!!!
The real question is, at what level does a ruling justify judicial Impeachment? Democraps could not standby, because this ruling hits everyone no matter what their political affiliation is!
it makes one wonder if our country's fathers should have john locke's provision for the right to own property in the Declaration of Independence, along with the right to life.
i guess they just figured something like this couldn't happen in this country, since an individual's right to own property has always been assumed.
Another snippet on this disaster for American rights of ownership ----
The 5-4 ruling represented a defeat for some Connecticut (search) residents whose homes are slated for destruction to make room for an office complex. They argued that cities have no right to take their land except for projects with a clear public use, such as roads or schools, or to revitalize blighted areas.
As a result, cities now have wide power to bulldoze residences for projects such as shopping malls and hotel complexes in order to generate tax revenue.
Writing for the court, Justice John Paul Stevens (search) said local officials, not federal judges, know best in deciding whether a development project will benefit the community. States are within their rights to pass additional laws restricting condemnations if residents are overly burdened, he said.
"The city has carefully formulated an economic development that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including — but by no means limited to — new jobs and increased tax revenue," Stevens wrote in an opinion joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.
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As we note the names of the supporting leftist activist justices. Yes, more power to the government at your expense of freedoms and protection of your property rights. If this does not SHOW TO THE WORLD what a platform for socialist judicial activism that the Supreme Court has become, they deserve what they are getting....SOCIALISM FOR THE UNITED STATES.
Chairman Mao's General Store coming to your backyard...
now where did I put that "Chinese For Dummies" book???
ain't it time for some of these Lefties with the Supremes to retire or die!!!
But then the legislatures could keep doing things like abusing eminent domain, and there'd be NO CHANCE to stop them with the courts ...
Disgusting. Our Constitution now has barely more practical meaning than those of China and the former USSR.
Believe it our not, the people are DU are as disgusted as we are at the ruling. The only thing different is they know it is their own people who made this ruling.
While talking with a friend shortly after this was announced he said almost the identical thing - and he is a Democrat. (but I don't hold that against him)
Start thinking about a campaign, people.. let your senators, congressmen know. Recourse would be by amendment. What a sickening decision.
It is time for Bush
to go to congress
with a simple request
that declares
to the court from the other two branches of government,
with regard to this ruling:
"go ahead, try to enforce it"
and then Bush should put federal marshalls in charge of protecting the private property about which the court made its ruling.
I'm actually glad to hear that. Like the FEC threatening to censor political websites, this isn't a left vs right issue, it's rent-seeking special interests against private individuals.
You forget that the Democrats only care about the victims of corporations, NOT victims of government.
This rulilng makes it easier for Corporations to get the help of goverment in any possible victimizing.
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