In the new article “Group Seeks Souter Eviction as Protest,” the Associated Press provides an update on Logan Darrow Clements‘s efforts to apply the Supreme Court’s recent eminent domain ruling to Judge Souter’s own summer home in New Hampshire:
Angered by a Supreme Court ruling that gave local governments more power to seize people’s homes for economic development, a group of activists is trying to get one of the court’s justices evicted from his own home.
The group, led by a California man, wants Justice David Souter’s home seized to build an inn called the “Lost Liberty Hotel.”
They submitted enough petition signatures only 25 were needed to bring the matter before voters in March. This weekend, they’re descending on Souter’s hometown, the central New Hampshire town of Weare, population 8,500, to rally for support.
“This is in the tradition of the Boston Tea Party and the Pine Tree Riot,” Organizer Logan Darrow Clements said, referring to the riot that took place during the winter of 1771-1772, when colonists in Weare beat up officials appointed by King George III who fined them for logging white pines without approval.
“All we’re trying to do is put an end to eminent domain abuse,” Clements said, by having those who advocate or facilitate it “live under it, so they understand why it needs to end.”
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