What's more chilling than the potential threats to civil liberties posed by the emergency powers he is grabbing on behalf of the president are the immediate practical threats these quick-fix legal schemes pose to the war effort.
They failed, of course, but most states have since passed laws curbing the power of local governments to grab land on behalf of private corporations.In the past year, in cases that were not decided unanimously, Mr Souter has voted 86% of the time with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court's liberal lioness.
Two years ago, the United States supreme court betrayed our Constitution and those who fought to ensure that its protections are enjoyed equally by all persons regardless of religion, race or gender by engaging in an unabashed power-grab on behalf of corporate America.
A statesman, the argument went, ought to have a disinterested view of the long-term welfare of the state, not a narrow factional wish for short-term power-grabbing on behalf of his friends and financiers.
Libertarian groups such as the Institute for Justice, which were campaigning against eminent-domain abuse before Kelo, report an upsurge in support, both moral and monetary.Property grabs on behalf of private developers have been common for some time: the Institute for Justice documented some 10,000 threatened or actual cases between 1998 and 2002.
Solidarity Uganda works in Northern Uganda, primarily in the Amuru District, where thousands of agrarian families are being victimized by attempts at land grabs on behalf of corporate food and oil interests.
And the profits of American companies suffer when foreign earnings are translated into dollars; estimates for profits growth this year have been revised down from 9.1% to 2.1% in recent months.If European QE is to be positive for the world, rather than just the euro zone, then it has to revive demand, not merely grab market share on behalf of the continent's exporters.
But it is a dishonest power and money grab by — and on behalf of — the already powerful.
