From Bloomberg:
The Barack Obama administration tried last week to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that the federal government can deny landowners the use of their property for years — decades if need be — without ever paying compensation.
Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler advanced this remarkable proposition during oral argument in Arkansas Game and Fish Commission v. United States, a case involving the damage wrought by the Army Corps of Engineers in its operation of the Clearwater Dam in Arkansas.
From 1993 to 2000, the Corps’s management of the dam caused regular flooding of a 23,000-acre wildlife management area, killing trees and depriving the commission of revenue from timber sales.
Fortunately, the Constitution provides a remedy for such abuses: the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause, which requires the government to pay “just compensation” when it takes property for public use.
Obama’s Property Grab Should End at Supreme Court http://t.co/V8JWk8Qn
Ah yes, One Government Bureaucracy fighting another Government Bureaucracy. Arkansas vs the U.S. Does anyone care about what the Constitution says about land within the Several States. Does anyone remember when the Constitution, as it was written, meant something? Is it time for a Constitutional Convention so we can rewrite the Document in words that no one can missapply. And while we are at it. Let’s put term limits on all elected Offices and set all salaries according to GSA Schedules. And let us create a new Constitutional requirement that no person who proclaims an ideology in conflict with our founding documents cannot hold an office in any government in the land. Wake up folks, we have almost a fourth of our Congress who are dead set against our founding principles.
I think the Constitution also states the we the people have the right to take a pay check away from any government worker that is not measuring up to the requirements of the job they were hired to do. Congress, take Obama’s money as he is definitely guilty of Malfeasance of Office and therefore not deserving of his pay check, but very deserving of Impeachment