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<blockquote data-quote="feguy" data-source="post: 57084"><p>It seems as though this is another case of people on this board not understanding an issue. </p><p>First of all, have you read the Supreme Court decision? Not the news reports of it, but the actual decision. If not, then that explains a lot. Yes, you are free to blabber at will about it, and look as foolish as you care to, so go ahead. </p><p>This ruling (decried by both liberals and conservatives, so you know there must be SOMETHING right about it)is extremely limited in scope. The narrowness of the decision and the cautionary language of the majority opinion, does more to actually limit the exercise of eminent domain than expand it. The fact is, (oh, I know how much you detest facts here on this board) that eminent domain has not been abused in recent years on the scale it was in the urban renewal days of the 1960s and 1970s, when there was less political outcry over the uprooting of far more people. It moves the law much more in favor of landowners than it was before, even though in this case the landowners lost. Hard for you to get your heads around that? Yes, I thought it would be. Here's what's important about the ruling: </p><p>It left states free to act on their own to prohibit takings for purposes of economic development. The federal decision essentially places great power into the hands of states. </p><p>All of you conservatives out there LOVE power in the hands of the states. </p><p>So complain all you want, but if you haven't read the decision, please, don't complain to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="feguy, post: 57084"] It seems as though this is another case of people on this board not understanding an issue. First of all, have you read the Supreme Court decision? Not the news reports of it, but the actual decision. If not, then that explains a lot. Yes, you are free to blabber at will about it, and look as foolish as you care to, so go ahead. This ruling (decried by both liberals and conservatives, so you know there must be SOMETHING right about it)is extremely limited in scope. The narrowness of the decision and the cautionary language of the majority opinion, does more to actually limit the exercise of eminent domain than expand it. The fact is, (oh, I know how much you detest facts here on this board) that eminent domain has not been abused in recent years on the scale it was in the urban renewal days of the 1960s and 1970s, when there was less political outcry over the uprooting of far more people. It moves the law much more in favor of landowners than it was before, even though in this case the landowners lost. Hard for you to get your heads around that? Yes, I thought it would be. Here's what's important about the ruling: It left states free to act on their own to prohibit takings for purposes of economic development. The federal decision essentially places great power into the hands of states. All of you conservatives out there LOVE power in the hands of the states. So complain all you want, but if you haven't read the decision, please, don't complain to me. [/QUOTE]
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