A US Supreme Court Judge could lose his country farmhouse thanks to a controversial law which he himself voted to bring in.
Furious protesters are plotting to seize David Souter's $150,000 (£86,400) 19th century home and turn it into a hotel after he voted to give towns the legal right to make compulsory purchases. They view his support for the legislation as an affront to every American's inviolable right to personal property.
In retaliation, they are determined to make him pay with the loss of his home in the countryside outside the town of Weare in New Hampshire, where the official state motto is "Live Free or Die". The hotel would be called The Lost Freedom, and its restaurant, The Just Desserts.
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"By his own ruling, Weare the town has the justification for such an action because the hotel project we are submitting will benefit the town by creating new jobs and a higher tax revenue," he said.
According to town officials, the audacious bid has a chance of success. "As far as we are concerned, we need to take this seriously under these new rules and are setting up meetings," said Charles Meany, Weare's official in charge of planning.
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Mr Souter, who has had his house in Weare for years and is expected to spend the summer there, might be surprised by the reaction of old acquaintances in the village.
I'll bet Souter will be surprised. Many Americans on both sides of the political spectrum think that the Court lost its' mind with the Kelo decision. Talk about Tone-deaf. Well, maybe Souter is about to get a "hearing exam".
If every town that has a Supreme Court Justice living there were to annex their property, do you think they'd rethink Kelo? Ooops! Judicial Mulligan!
posted by Jo Fish on 07.12.05 at 04:23 PM
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Serves the bastard right. Let him suffer for his stupidity.
posted by: merlallen on 07.12.05 at 08:50 PM [permalink]
He deserves to lose it anyway. Call it delayed payback.
And pay the prick pennies on the dollar the way Commander Halfwit did in Arlington Texas
posted by: Lurch on 07.12.05 at 09:13 PM [permalink]