Did anyone catch Chris Matthew's segment tonight on the Usual Suspects?

[Baitball Blogger]

We need to remember all the times that the conservative Supreme Court ruled, where it has hurt our democracy.

These are the ones I remember.

1-Ruled 5-4 in favor of interfering with the Recount in the 2000 election.

2-Ruled in favor of Citizen's United.

3-Ruled in favor of the Muslim Ban.

There were two others. Anyone remember them?

[hatrack]

1. Kelo vs. City of New London

Another 5-4 POS decision.

This turned eminent domain on its head by holding that your property can be condemned for private development.

[Not a hospital or a school or a road or a sewer plant. A private real estate development, because there will be so much wonderful prosperity from that development that it will benefit everybody.)

Oh, and the development in question? It went tits-up not long after.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Dammit. Didn't know about that one.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Donald Trump, Vera Coking, eminent domain, Atlantic City

Trump tried to evict a widow from her home because he needed a larger parking garage for the limos of the high rollers.

He lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Coking

[uponit7771]

4. +1, with Kelo vs. City of New London all a city has to do is say "this corporation, which would ...

... never ever lie to us in any way, promises us huge tax revenue" and take property

[Bluepinky]

5. The Bush vs Gore decision is the worst in my lifetime (#1 on your list).

With that blatantly partisan decision, we got Bush and Cheney and, along with them, 9/11, Iraq War, Citizens United, two very conservative Supreme Court Justices, financial collapse, worse income inequality, more poor, etc.

And look where we are now.