Eminent Domain: The gov't can turn your home into a field of weeds

[Tex]

The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. Their former site is a wasteland of fields of weeds, a monument to the power of eminent domain.

But now Pfizer, the drug company whose neighboring research facility had been the original cause of the homes' seizure, has just announced that it is closing up shop in New London.

To lure those jobs to New London a decade ago, the local government promised to demolish the older residential neighborhood adjacent to the land Pfizer was buying for next-to-nothing. Suzette Kelo fought the taking to the Supreme Court, and lost. Five justices found this redevelopment met the constitutional hurdle of "public use."

I'm not sure there's another ruling in the last 10 years that makes me angrier than Kelo. What a piece of garbage.

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[MikeWaters]

I'm still hoping that they can "eminent domain" Souter's home. I'm willing to donate to that effort.