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August 26, 2005
Justice Weighs Desire v. Duty (Duty Prevails)
The NY Times
by Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens explains that in the eminent domain case of Kelo v. New London:
...that his majority opinion that upheld the government's "taking" of private homes for a commercial development in New London, Conn., brought about a result "entirely divorced from my judgment concerning the wisdom of the program" that was under constitutional attack.
In other words, though he thought that the Constitution warranted upholding the taking of the property of the New London homeowners, he doesn't agree with the policy.
Posted by lumi at August 26, 2005 8:29 AM