There's a new executive order from our favorite,
Protecting the Property Rights of the American People, as per the L.A. Times summary
Bush Weighs In on Eminent Domain Issue,
"President Bush ordered that federal agencies cannot seize private property except for public projects such as hospitals or roads. The move occurred on the one-year anniversary of a controversial Supreme Court decision on the use of eminent domain.
The majority...in the [Kelo] case involving New London, Conn., homeowners said local governments could take private property for purely economic development-related projects because the motive was to bring more jobs and tax revenue to a city. Many states have since acted to prohibit such takings."
I thought at the time of Kelo that Sandra Day O'Connor (writing in dissent, with a great quip about "the specter of condemnation is haunting all property", a la Marx's "A specter is haunting Europe: the specter of Communism.") was right, but if Bush is against Kelo, maybe Kelo was not so bad a decision after all?
Anyway, Armando was quite the pundit about Kelo and why it was good, maybe he has something to say about it. Or maybe others have something to say about it too. Discuss.