I didn't think anybody could write more vehemently about eminent-domain abuses than Leo Morris or Mike Sylvester. But George Will, in his back-of-Newsweek piece, gives us a run for our money:
Kelo demonstrated that anyone who owns a modest home or small business owns it only at the sufferance of a local government that might, on a whim of rapacity, seize it to enrich a more attractive potential taxpayer. But occasionally a Supreme Court decision disgusts and alarms so many people that there is a political recoil and broad social stirring. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) and Roe v. Wade (1973) were such decisions. The Kelo decision is proving to be the best thing that has happened since the New Deal to energize the movement to strengthen property rights.
