OPINION: Government Shouldn’t Have the Power to Take Private Property for Free
Posted on AllSides June 3rd, 2019
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OPINION
The Supreme Court must reverse the ruling of a lower court in Love Terminal Partners v. United States.
While public attention is riveted on Democrats with extravagant proposals for government expansion — a Green New Deal, single-payer health care, tuition-free college — few observers have noticed a recent federal court ruling that will, absent Supreme Court intervention, grant the government immense powers to confiscate private property in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution mandates that private property cannot be taken for public use “without...
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