TAKE SOUTER's HOUSE! Update.

Souter won’t get taste of his own medicine
Justice wins symbolic protest vote aimed at eminent domain ruling

Surprise! Freedom loses another round, kiddies. A noble effort at waking the fat, the lazy, and the ignorant has failed.

May God have mercy on all souls.

In a largely symbolic gesture, voters in Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s hometown on Tuesday rejected a proposal to seize his 200-year-old farmhouse as payback for a ruling that expanded government’s authority to take property.

Even though voters overwhelmingly agreed to leave Souter’s home alone, it would have been safe whatever the outcome.

The vote was prompted by activists angered by the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision last year in a property rights case from Connecticut. Souter sided with the majority in holding that governments can take property and turn it over to private developers.

Voters decided 1,167 to 493 in favor of the reworded measure that asked the Board of Selectmen not to use their power of eminent domain to take the farmhouse, and instead urged New Hampshire to adopt a law that forbids seizures of the sort sanctioned by the Supreme Court.

“It makes Souter the only person in the United States that would be given special protection against his own ruling,” said Logan Darrow Clements of Los Angeles, a businessman who led the campaign to evict Souter.