Questions for Elena Kagan

I don't know what will happen when the Senate Judiciary Committee grills Obama's Supreme Court nominee, but I hope at least one member reads George Will's column and uses some of his suggested questions. They are all worth reading, but here are my three favorites:

The government having decided that Chrysler's survival is an urgent national necessity, could it decide that "Cash for Clunkers" is too indirect a subsidy and instead mandate that people buy Chrysler products? ...Can you name a human endeavor that Congress cannot regulate on the pretense that the endeavor affects interstate commerce? ...Should proper respect for precedent prevent the court from reversing Kelo? If so, was the court wrong to undo the 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregating the races with "separate but equal" facilities is constitutional?

Let's Celebrate Some Inspiring News on Property Rights

This new video from the Institute for Justice celebrates the backlash against the Supreme Court's reprehensible Kelo decision that allowed politicians to seize private property for the benefit of commercial developers and other campaign contributors.



The best part of the video comes shortly before the three-minute mark, when the narrator notes that the corrupt politicians of New London, CT, have not received any additional tax revenue as a result of stealing Susette Kelo's house. Sometimes, as I noted in an earlier blog entry, there is poetic justice.