Bid to Seize Souter’s Home Is Shot Down
Voters in Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter’s hometown of Weare rejected a proposal to seize his 200-year-old farmhouse so that it could be turned into an inn that would be named the Lost Liberty Hotel.
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 could take private property and turn it over to private developers.
Souter has not commented on the matter.
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