Justices Affirm Property Seizures

[fabsroman]

Personally, I have mixed feelings about this case. If you knew the areas that Mayor Williams is referring to in DC, you would understand my reason for having mixed feelings. There are portions of DC that are horrible. By horrible, I mean terrible housing, drug traffficking, and homicides left and right. Problem is, if you fix up that area, the rif raff have to go somewhere else, no doubt about that. Then again, there is the argument that if the economy is stimulated in this way, the riff raff will have the opportunity to work as honest citizens, yeah right. My question is where are the riff raff going to go? Beforehand, I knew to avoid Southeast DC because I could end up dead, now what part of DC do I need to avoid?

Regarding the dissent in an opinion, that is the non-majority's opinion. The majority write the intial opinion of the Court and the minority, the dissenters, get to write their own opinion why the majority is wrong. Being a dissenter has nothing to do with whether the judges are liberal or conservative, merely has to do with their position on the matter. So, the dissenters in this case could be all liberal, all conservative, or a mix of both, but they just do not like the ruling of the Court. Something tells me that this decision might not stand too long because it was a 5 to 4 decision.