Courtesy of the WashingtonPost.com –
To call it a backlash would hardly do it justice. Calling it an unprecedented uprising to nullify a decision by the highest court in the land would be more accurate.
In the four weeks since the Supreme Court sanctioned the seizure of private homes by municipal governments for private “economic development,” a firestorm of reaction has broken out in state legislatures and in Congress.
Brilliantly stated. When the citizens and politicians are in seemingly unanimous agreement, something must be right with the world.
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