I think almost everyone agrees that Kelo was bad public policy. The question before the court, however, was not whether the policy was good or bad but rather whether it was constitutional.
Thus, the success or failure of the endevour is irrelevant to whether the case was decided correctly by the court. In particular, the fact that the land is sitting empty is not an argument that the case was decided incorrectly, any more than a “downtown renaissance” would argue for it’s correctness on legal terms.
Legislative bodies make bad policy decisions all the time and it’s not the court’s place to save them from themselves.
erp: You really believe that if that decision was made by the current court, there wouldn’t be finger pointing at the VRWC?
Who cares? That is not the point of either the OP or Uh Clem’s comment.
More to the point, NL has a history of just being ill-fated. I don’t know why Gaudiani et al. thought they could suddenly turn it around. The town has Conn College, the Coast Guard Academy, the O’Neill estate and theater, the Deaf School, and a lovely bit of coastline out at Ocean Beach. They’ve never been able to do anything with it.
erp says:
I think it’s good to remind everyone that it was the majority of lefty justices that agreed with the city to take away the homes of low income people.
Very few people believe that to be true since CW says that greedy right wingers are to blame.
September 29, 2009, 11:13 amuh_clem says:
I think almost everyone agrees that Kelo was bad public policy. The question before the court, however, was not whether the policy was good or bad but rather whether it was constitutional.
Thus, the success or failure of the endevour is irrelevant to whether the case was decided correctly by the court. In particular, the fact that the land is sitting empty is not an argument that the case was decided incorrectly, any more than a “downtown renaissance” would argue for it’s correctness on legal terms.
Legislative bodies make bad policy decisions all the time and it’s not the court’s place to save them from themselves.
September 29, 2009, 11:14 amerp says:
You really believe that if that decision was made by the current court, there wouldn’t be finger pointing at the VRWC?
September 29, 2009, 11:23 amChrisTS says:
Who cares? That is not the point of either the OP or Uh Clem’s comment.
More to the point, NL has a history of just being ill-fated. I don’t know why Gaudiani et al. thought they could suddenly turn it around. The town has Conn College, the Coast Guard Academy, the O’Neill estate and theater, the Deaf School, and a lovely bit of coastline out at Ocean Beach. They’ve never been able to do anything with it.
September 29, 2009, 7:13 pmDaniel says:
Here’s what the land that the city of New London took from Kelo and her neighbors looks like today.
September 29, 2009, 8:10 pm