Kelo Backlash Update

An interesting item from last Friday's update from Congressman Boehner:

As you may have read, the City of New London, Connecticut has taken its eminent domain victory at the Supreme Court to a new level. Now that its seizure of private property for economic gain has been deemed "constitutional," New London claims that the affected homeowners were living on city land for the duration of the lawsuit -- and they owe back rent. In other words, the city wants these homeowners to pay rent for the time they were fighting its attempt to take their homes.

According to USA Today, Susette Kelo - lead plaintiff in the Kelo v. City of New London case - could owe as much as $57,000.

'I`d leave here broke'

This underscores the need for legislation like the Private Property Rights Protection Act, which aims to curb the abuses of "eminent domain" power sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Read more about it here.

This is serious business and I'm glad to see that Congress is taking it seriously.