KELO, SUSETTE, ET AL. v. NEW LONDON, CT, ET AL..
Decided 06/23/2005
Basically, the government can now take your property and give it to someone who they think will generate more tax revenue.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: The End of Constitutional Limitations?:
Is it overstating it to say that the entire experiment in limited government that we began 216 years ago with the passage of the Constitution may well have come to an end in the last few weeks with the double whammy of the Raich and Kelo decisions? If “interstate commerce” can be abstracted to give the government authority over activities that are neither interstate nor commerce, and if “public use” can be abstracted to cover private use, I dare say we have passed through Alice’s mirror into a Wonderland where words can mean whatever the Queen wants them to mean at any given time.
