KELO/RAICH

If you grow pot in your attic solely to help you survive chemotherapy, you can be prosecuted by the feds under the “inter-state commerce” rationale. Now you can have your property stolen by Walmart and be unable to get any recompense either, as long as your local representatives, financed by the real estate lobby, go along. Is this an unfree country or what? And, of course, none of this breaks new ground. That’s the really depressing part. It seems to me that the most inspired pick for the Supreme Court would be a thoroughgoing economic and social libertarian. The freedom-loving part of the Republican coalition has already been alienated in so many ways by this administration. A libertarian SCOTUS pick would go some way to winning them back.
UPDATE: I’m also guilty of hyperbole. As one reader reminds me: “I’m with the dissent. Nevertheless, ‘unable to get any recompense’ is flat out wrong. They still have to compensate the owners for their property.” Point taken. It’s just a lot easier for the government now than it was.