{"id":8694,"date":"2015-06-06T08:55:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2015-06-06T08:57:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T13:57:02","slug":"when-rgb-breyer-and-david-souter-and-blew-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=8694","title":{"rendered":"When RGB, Breyer, Kennedy and Souter Blew It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conservatives on the Supremes were absolutely right in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London\" target=\"_blank\">Kelo vs. New London<\/a>, an atrocious give-away to Pfizer at the expense of seven citizen homeowners.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London\" target=\"_blank\">dissenting opinions<\/a> of O&#8217;Connor and Thomas are particularly insightful and in this case, clairvoyant.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In spite of repeated efforts, the redeveloper (who stood to get a 91-acre (370,000 m2) waterfront tract of land for $1 per year) was unable to obtain financing, and the redevelopment project was abandoned. As of the beginning of 2010, the original Kelo property was a vacant lot, generating no tax revenue for the city.[2] In the aftermath of 2011&#8217;s Hurricane Irene, the now-closed New London redevelopment area was turned into a dump for storm debris such as tree branches and other vegetation.[13] As of February 2014, it was still vacant.[14][15]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservatives on the Supremes were absolutely right in Kelo vs. New London, an atrocious give-away to Pfizer at the expense of seven citizen homeowners.The dissenting opinions of O&#8217;Connor and Thomas are particularly insightful and in this case, clairvoyant. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=8694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8697,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}