Supreme Court Justice Scalia Talks Eminent Domain, Internment Camps
“On the one hand, he said he has “no doubt” the court will eventually overturn a 2005 ruling that let the City of New London take Susette Kelo’s property using eminent domain and transfer it to a private corporation because the promised economic development constituted a public use.
As it turned out, the development never happened and the jobs never came, which Scalia called “poetic justice.”
“Kelo will not survive,” he said of the court’s 5-4 decision on the case in which he dissented. “I think the court was surprised by the reaction nationwide.””
Honolulu Civil Beat 4 February 2014.