Jerome Stocks For Supreme Court

Jerome Stocks is a city council member in Encinitas, a lovely town in Northern San Diego County. I formally throw his hat into the ring for SCOTUS consideration, based on this:

The City Council this week will consider one member's proposal to limit the city's power to take private property.

Councilman Jerome Stocks said he will ask the council Wednesday to direct its staff to draft an ordinance that would so severely restrict the city's use of eminent domain that it would be nearly impossible to use it. ...

"It used to be that taking property by eminent domain was for roads and schools and military bases," Stocks said Friday. "The court's decision expands that right, and we can design a mechanism by which that right cannot be exercised."

Stocks will recommend an ordinance requiring a "greater than two-thirds" public vote in a regularly scheduled election before private property can be condemned and given to another private party to develop.

"In my opinion, it will never happen. Voters will say, if we let them do this (to someone else), it can happen to me," the councilman said.

h/t: Jim