The Kelo decision, allowing New London to seize private property and transfer it to developers for economic 'public benefit,' represents judicial lawlessness because it effectively wrote the words 'public use' out of the Constitution and substituted the courts' preferred 'public benefit'; justices' oath obligates them to enforce the Constitution's actual words.

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Clint Bolick

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basically writing out of the Constitution the important words public use and substituting their prefer preferred words public benefit that to me is again an exercise and judicial lawlessness

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Clint Bolick Defends Judicial Activism 10/31/2006EconTalk
Created: 6/16/2026, 2:24:20 PM

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