Daren will not be surprised to read that the Tar Heel State has been omitted from this article‘s honor roll of states that have taken the strongest steps to fight eminent domain abuse.
But two of our neighbors — Georgia and South Carolina — are praised, alongside Florida and South Dakota.
The article also highlights the strange politics of eminent domain reform:
As Scott Bullock, an attorney at the Institute for Justice (and the lawyer who argued Kelo before the Supreme Court), notes: “Republicans who are limited government types are typically good on eminent domain, but those who are tied too deeply to big business are bad. With Democrats, those who are keyed into the rights of the oppressed and the effects of power structures are typically good, but Democrats who are into good government and civil planning are bad on the issue.”
