{"id":586,"date":"2005-08-04T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T20:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=586"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:49:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:49:14","slug":"more-kelo-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/08\/04\/more-kelo-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"More Kelo Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/024690.php\">More <em>Kelo <\/em>Backlash (via Instapundit.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAlabama yesterday became the first state to enact new protections against local-government seizure of property allowed under a Supreme Court ruling that has triggered an explosive grass-roots counteroffensive across the country. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Besides Alabama, legislation to ban or restrict the use of eminent domain for private development has been introduced in 16 states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, Massachusetts is in there? Not bad&#8230; not bad at all. Maybe your private land <em>will<\/em> be safe (in a few years).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Alabama yesterday became the first state to enact new protections against local-government seizure of property allowed under a Supreme Court ruling that has triggered an explosive grass-roots counteroffensive across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-9s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":553,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/23\/kelo-v-city-of-new-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":586,"position":0},"title":"Kelo v. City of New London","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 23, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, this is what I get for not paying attention to things. What the hell happened here? Is this a failure of justice or something?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":404,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/02\/22\/will-leviathan-prevail\/","url_meta":{"origin":586,"position":1},"title":"Will Leviathan Prevail?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 22, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Garbus apparently thinks your stuff is yours only so long as the government doesn't want it and, moreover, that the reasons the government wants it are irrelevant.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":904,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/06\/26\/a-victory-for-privacy\/","url_meta":{"origin":586,"position":2},"title":"A Victory for Privacy","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent court decision has granted e-mail the same 4th Amendment protection as your home and your phone calls.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":555,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/24\/government-taking-private-land\/","url_meta":{"origin":586,"position":3},"title":"Government Taking Private Land","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Read this and maybe you'll understand why so many people are worried. Someone, somewhere thought that this ruling might signal the end of the Real Estate boom - a chilling thought if you're in the Real Estate business. (Or in any kind of business; since so much of the US\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6390,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2025\/05\/28\/no-more-the-way-things-were\/","url_meta":{"origin":586,"position":4},"title":"No More &#8220;The Way Things Were&#8221;","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"There is no changing the fact that all of this has happened. 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