Friday - August 05, 2005

Alabama Fights Back Against SCOTUS

This has been brewing for weeks now since the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo vs. New London that gave government the right to snatch land for private development. Several states are already preparing legislation to block this heinous crime against landowners everywhere. Alabama became one of the first to sign into law legislation to prohibit any land-snatching schemes this week when the state legislature unanimously voted to approve a bill to protect homeowners. Governor Bob Riley signed the bill into law yesterday ....

MONTGOMERY - Governor Bob Riley today signed a law that gives Alabamians the strongest private property rights in the nation. In a ceremony in the State Capitol’s historic Old House Chamber, the Governor called the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on property rights “misguided” and a “threat to all property owners.”

“In response, a property rights revolt is sweeping the nation and Alabama is leading it,” Governor Riley said, noting that press reports say Alabama is the first state in the nation to pass a new law in response to the high court’s June 23 decision in Kelo vs. City of New London. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that local governments can seize homes for private development. At least eight other states had already passed laws before the court’s ruling that forbid the use of eminent domain for economic development unless it is to eliminate blight.

“Alabamians can rest assured that their homes, their farms, their businesses and other private property are safe from being seized by government for a shopping center or a factory, an office building or new residential development. With this new landmark law on the books, Alabamians will have the strongest property protections in America,” said Governor Riley. The bill was included in Governor Riley’s call for the recently concluded special session and it was approved by an overwhelming vote in the House and Senate. The new law prohibits the state or local governments from condemning private property in non-blighted areas for the purpose of retail, commercial, industrial, office or residential development.

“What our new law does is restore the level of protection that existed prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling in June,” Governor Riley said. “That ruling is a reminder of the awesome power that activist judges have, and unfortunately use, to rewrite our Constitution. What Alabama is doing with this new law I just signed counteracts that ruling.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/05/2005 at 01:29 AM   
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