More on Eminent Domain
I’ve never been a fan of the federal government’s use of Federal highway and other grant to state and local governments as a tool to force those governments to enact law that they otherwise would not, but here’s something I found that might change my mind, at least in this instance. It seems there’s a bill in the House of Representitives that might actually put this tactic to possibly good use.
The bill, headed toward easy passage with bipartisan support, would withhold federal funds from state and local governments that use powers of eminent domain to force homeowners to give up their property for commercial uses.
Granted, if it passes it will likely somehow be abused like all of the other laws that use federal funds as a carrot/bribe to get the states to submit to federal demands, but it’s nice to know the legislature’s heart is in the right place, for once.
The simple fact is, is this should never have been an issue in the first place. The Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London was one of the worst ever, as far as individual and property rights are concerned.
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