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Kelo v. New London

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The Conservative Approach to Property Ownership and Property Rights

The majority relies on two cases. One of them is when Hawaii first became a state and like only like 22 people owned almost all the property on one of the islands. And O'Connor's like, look, the public purpose here was divesting these monopolists of property. It doesn't matter that it was handed over after the fact that was the public purpose. This is why it's such a inversion of a lot of case we've tackled because the conservatives in dissent are just like, can we approach this with the least bit of fucking nuance? The majority is like, no, actually, I'm going to take this weirdly hard line on it, right? Which is really

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