I seriously doubt the framers of the Constitution would have agreed that "public use" in the Fifth Amendment meant use by whatever private entity could pump more money into government coffers.
In fact, odds are that the amendment was written precisely because property had been, in that time, confiscated for arbitrary reasons by both governments and the wealthy who had the most influence in the government.
Taking private property for other private owners, simply because one could show that the general public would benefit financially, is a very bad precedent, and now that it has been "legitimized" by the Supreme Court, I expect to see a lot more of it. I can think of a lot of directions this can go, none of them good.
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"Violate the Constitution" has become an amazingly flexible concept.
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- CNN: "High court OKs personal property seizures"
- I'm hearing that there were a lot of questionable "Eminent Domain" actions that are now proceeding because of this decision.
- High Court Justices' Property at Risk
- The power of imminent domain...
- The rest of the decision:
- The gist of this decision:
- Odds are good that middle- and lower-class property owners...
- Tell that to the people in CT...
- Also, about lost income, I referred to rental income.
- no income is lost............
- Strange bedfellows
- The issue is the "uniqueness" that is inherent in each piece of real-property
- re: bedfellows
- The Supreme Court is ruling on its authority to abrogate a local law.
- Strange bedfellows
- no income is lost............
- So we can get it on the record:
- Also, about lost income, I referred to rental income.
- Tell that to the people in CT...
- Odds are good that middle- and lower-class property owners...
- Going back to the point that language has meaning and misuse leads to emotional misunderstanding..
- jWow! Scalia and Thomas came down on the side of people!!!
- Sounds like a BAD decision to me.
- re: CNN: "High court OKs personal property seizures"
