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Originally Posted by Hardknock
Who cares? You seem to forget that the SC only interprets law. They don't legislate from the bench. If the LAW ON THE BOOKS says that a city government tan take property and give it to some developer and build a mall on top of it, then that's what will be handed down by the court. Their job is not to create law, but to interpret it.
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Ummm, that is so wrong that I don't even know where to start. What they ruled is that the well-established meaning of eminent domain under the 5th Amendment was basically garbage. This decision is on the par of Wickard v. Filburn as far as being a landmark decision.