A Victory for Property Rights

Among the most despicable decisions by the Supreme Court in recent years was the Kelo decision, in which a 5-4 majority ruled that eminent domain could be interpreted to mean that the government could take private property from one party in order to transfer it to the private property of another party...as long as there were a "public good" to be gained.

This story tells of a successful effort to fight such a "taking" by the City of Long Branch New Jersey.

Kelo simply made it legal for municipalities to do this; it did not mandate it. It will be up to the states to make laws that remove this power from themselves and municipalities.