Imminent Domain ruling affirming property seizures that the Liberal members of the court just authored?

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DanS

Maybe YOU ought to look again at who voted to give communities the right to take your property, and who dissented. :rolleyes:
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I did, apparently it looks like you didn't.....

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Writing for the court's majority in Thursday's ruling, Justice John Paul Stevens 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 plan 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.

Stevens was joined in his opinion by other members of the court's liberal wing - David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer. The bloc typically has favored greater deference to cities, which historically have used the takings power for urban renewal projects that benefit the lower and middle class.
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DanS

Yeah, judges interpret laws. That's what they do. The SC held that a woman has the right to choose an abortion. They INTERPRETED the Constitution as giving women that right. Are you saying it doesn't?
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Yes, they snuck it through in 1973 on the warped interpetion of privacy--It should be overturned (it eventually will be lessoned at least so that partial birth abortions are not protected) and turned back to the states.

Contrary to what all the 'Vote Your Vagina' militant Suburu Stationwagon crowd says, abortion will still be legal in most if not all states. That's what the framers of the Constitution pushed for (state's rights) and the peoples vote--if enough people vote for something to be legal--then it should be legal.
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