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U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law

Mar. 5, 2013

Methinks Justice Stevens protests too much

In his latest article on Kelo, Justice John Paul Stevens doubles down and purports to tell us in three easy steps why he was right and everybody else is wrong.

Gideon Kanner

Professor of Law Emeritus, Loyola Law School

USC Law School

Justice John Paul Stevens has done it again. While at first he hinted at the idea that the Kelo v. New London case was one of Supreme Court's achievements that perhaps warranted a mulligan, he now concedes that, as far as the American populace is concerned, it's a lot worse than that. In his latest (second? third?) article on the Kelo case, he concedes that Kelo is viewed as the most widely despised case decided by the Supreme Court in modern times. "Kelo, Pop...

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