The Supreme Court’s recent rewriting of the Fifth Amendment has angered many. I wonder if Justice Souter thought Eminent Domain might be used to seize his home when he cast the deciding swing vote in favor of destroying property rights. I honestly hope he didn’t. This situation is much more pleasing if it hits him completely unexpected.
A request has been filed to seize Justice Souter’s property in order to develop a hotel named “Lost Liberty Hotel” and a museum open to the public which chronicles the destruction of various liberties in America. Currently Justice Souter’s property nets the government $2,895 in property taxes. The developer, Logan Darrow Clements, contends that a hotel and museum at that site will create more tax revenue, which serves a greater public benefit and therefore a lawful use of Eminent Domain as redefined by the Supreme Court.
I cannot believe this happened. It seems each branch of government is completely broken. We have liberal movie stars becoming Republican governors, a congress which has completely no concept of ethics and executive branch who feels we are almost ready to open a branch of Starbucks in Iraq. The whole point of 3 branches was to keep things balanced. Maybe the supreme court felt they had to come to a completely insane decision in order to keep pace with the other 2 branches. Somehow that makes a little sense, and with a few shots of some harsh whiskey it would make perfect sense.
They must have a great happy hour inside the beltway.
Comment by B — Wednesday 29 June, 2005 @ 22:31