Hotel Souter

From Chicago Sun-Times

People from across the country are getting behind a campaign to seize Supreme Court Justice David Souter's farmhouse to build a luxury hotel, according to the man who came up with the idea after a Supreme Court decision favoring government seizure of private property.

''We would act just as these cities have been acting in seizing properties. We would give Souter the same sort of deal,'' said Logan Darrow Clements of Los Angeles.

Town Clerk Evelyn Connor has had to return checks from people wishing to donate to a hotel construction fund. A rival proposal from townspeople would turn Souter's land into a park commemorating the Constitution.

It's refreshing that even the townspeople are behind some sort of a "punitive" action. That's really the key support. Outsiders horsing around would never fly.

But Justice Souter is not without his defenders.

Souter has declined to comment, but he has defenders, like Betty Straw, his sixth-grade teacher.

''I think it's absolutely ridiculous,'' she said. ''They're just doing it for spite.''

Boy, they're really going deep if all they can quote is his sixth-grade teacher.

Live Free or Die State... I love it!

SCOTUS Posted by AlexC at July 25, 2005 11:00 AM