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August 3, 2005
Bush Flip Flops on Eminent Domain
In January, conservative public interest groups and commentators lobbied the Bush administration to stand down in the eminent domain fight. The White House was seriously contemplating filing a friend of the court brief on the side of the City of New London in favor of an expanded definition of eminent domain in the US Supreme Court case (see, WSJ Editorial, "Ownership Society," January 13, 2005).
Since then, Bush has remained on the sidelines and has been silent on this hot-button issue, until this week when, as reported in the Des Moines Register the President:
Said he was "troubled" by a Supreme Court ruling that eminent domain may be used by government to take private property for use by developers. "I'm concerned about the government overreaching," he said. Bush said he has not seen proposed legislation in Congress rolling back the decision but would give it "serious review."
NoLandGrab: There's something for everyone, true conservatives will appreciate having Bush stick up for property rights and disenfranchised liberals love seeing Bush doing a flip flop.
Posted by lumi at August 3, 2005 9:28 PM