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Friday, June 24, 2005

More on Kelo

Steven Greenhut of the OCRegister has an excellent editorial on the Supreme Court's upsetting Kelo lack-of-property-rights decision, and the history of such decisions since the 1950s.

Update: George Will on Kelo:
During oral arguments in February, Justice Antonin Scalia distilled the essence of New London's brazen claim: "You can take from A and give to B if B pays more taxes?" Yesterday the court said that the modifier "public" in the phrase "public use" does not modify government power at all. That is the logic of the opinion written by Justice John Paul Stevens and joined by justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.