Question Earthority!

“‘Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory.’ When former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote that line in her biting dissent from Kelo v. New London — the now-infamous and egregious case in which the Supreme Court ruled that governments could use the power of eminent domain to take private property to give to developers — she obviously viewed the issue as one that would disenfranchise the poor and powerless.” (03/30/06)