Wednesday, June 29, 2005

It's not going to happen, folks.

The idea has been bouncing around this week of filing an eminent domain suit to seize the property of Justice David Souter so that a development called the "The Lost Liberty Hotel" featuring the "Just Desserts Café" can be built.

The use of an eminent domain suit as a form of vengeance or demonstration against an individual might be called poetic justice by some of us, but in the legal terms, it might better be understood as "judicial harassment" or "frivolous lawsuit". Since the eminent domain suit purposely targets a single individual, and since the land would not be sought in the first place if that individual did not own it, the seizure of the land would clearly be discriminatory.

I don't like the Kelo Decision, but I like the idea of conservatives acting like spoil-sports and transforming liberal judges into victims of persecution even less.