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July 5, 2006
Liberty and Justices for Al-Qaeda
In an arch-Conservative condemnation of the recent Supreme Court decision Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Frontpagemag.com columnist Patrick Poole offers this attack on Michael Ratner:
Ratner, a law professor at Columbia University, comes from a family of means (think Paris Hilton with a law degree). His brother, Bruce, owns the New Jersey Nets, and his family controls Forest City Enterprises, a mega-real estate developer that has been called the poster child for eminent domain abuse. Should it be any surprise that the Ratner family’s favorite politician and campaign contribution recipient, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, was one of the first individuals to hail the Court’s Hamdan decision?
NoLandGrab: Poole misses an important point in his scattershot attack. Constitutional-rights lawyer and hero to the left Michael Ratner OWNS a minority stake in the Nets, and therefore stands to gain financially if the Atlantic Yards high-rise Nets arena proposal goes forward.
Executives at Forest City Enterprises, headquartered in Cleveland, should note that, even though the Forest City Ratner subsidiary run by Bruce Ratner is the branch of the company that has been branded the "poster child for eminent domain abuse," it's inevitable that the parent company's reputation will be marred as well.
Posted by lumi at July 5, 2006 7:09 AM