My thanks to Timothy Sandefur for sending me an advance copy of his new book Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st-Century America. It's apparently not available in stores yet. Amazon says they'll have it the end of October. The book is about eminent domain laws around the country and the threat they pose to property rights. It's published by the Cato Institute and contains cover blurbs from some real heavy hitters, including Richard Epstein and Sandra Day O'Connor, whose eloquent dissent in Kelo was inspiring (and that's not something I ever thought I could say about an O'Connor opinion). Congratulations to Tim on the publication of the book, and thanks again for the review copy. I'll post a review as soon as I finish the book.
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Looks like Bill Kristol was right. Justice O'Connor is retiring from the court, which just ramps up the intensity on this summer's confirmation fight even higher than it would be if Rehnquist retired. Why?
Orin Kerr makes a couple of interesting points in his post on Volokh about O'Connor's retirement:
Kevin Connors admits that he has been "quite remiss in following the efforts to debunk Prof. Lott's work", but unfamiliarity with the case isn't going to stop him from having an opinion on the matter.
A reader made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge in the name of Connor S. (age 8) from Conshohocken, PA. Connor S.
It's totally hypocritical to write about property 'rights' when the whole USA was stolen from the original inhabitants.
Every square foot of land on the planet that has ever been inhabited has been stolen many times over. That hardly means that protecting property rights is not important now.