March 23, 2005

The Tyranny of Eminent Domain

Originally posted at LIBTeam on 2/22/05

On February 22nd, the future of property rights in America will be at stake as the Supreme Court begins oral arguments in the case of Kelo v. New London. The central question at issue is: should the government be able to use its power of eminent domain to seize property from one private party and transfer it to another?

I first became aware of this case from this op-ed from the Ayn Rand Institute.

This is scary. I don’t care which side of the political divide you are on, as long as you aren’t socialist left or wackjob right, you should be paying attention to this case. This is the fruit of our labors.

If you are conservative, you contributed to this case by insisting that all private enterprise is the ideal.

If you are a liberal, you contributed to this case by arguing that, fiscally, the common good trumps individual’s economic rights.

I cannot even begin to guess which way SCOTUS is going to go on this. I sincerely hope and pray they will do the right thing, like they did in the detainee case.

I’ll be watching this one.

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No they haven't ruled on it yet. I think it will be ruled on by summer.

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