Eminent domain and Terry Schiavo

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by D. Scarlatti

He didn't really compare the two cases, as the thread title seems to imply, but he could have, since they're both examples of the federal judiciary abstaining from exercising its power over issues better left to the competency of state and local governments, which I had thought was the essence of the New Federalism.

Hmmm... But that prompts the question as to why the preeminent champions of the "New Federalism" were on the minority in the Kelo case.

Did they lose their way, like on Bush vs. Gore?

But Tom DeLay has never been a competent authority on the Constitution.

On what little I know of him, I'm inclined to agree.