Land Snatch Tune
on 06/27/2005 at 06:28 AM
This land is not your land indeed. FYI, I read and reviewed the SCOTUS opinions and dissents at my blog
Here’s a scary realization from Justice O’Connors dissent:
“If legislative prognostications about the secondary public benefits of a new use can legitimate a taking, there is nothing in the Court’s rule or in Justice Kennedy’s gloss on that rule to prohibit property transfers generated with less care, that are less comprehensive, that happen to result from less elaborate process, whose only projected advantage is the incidence of higher taxes, or that hope to transform an already prosperous city into an even more prosperous one.”
For those so inclined, the SCOTUS opinions and ruling on this is here.
And it ain’t over. SCOTUS just ruled 5-4 that the Ten Commandments as displayed in the Kentucky case are UNCONSTITUTIONAL. GOD DAMN IT!
And who provided the swing vote? Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Thanks a hell of a lot!
This from AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, struggling with a vexing social issue, held Monday it was constitutionally permissible to display the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas capitol but that it was a violation of separation of church and state to place them in Kentucky courthouses.
Huh?
