{"id":224,"date":"2015-04-23T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/04\/23\/justice-scalia-compares-taking-private-property-to-communist-russia\/"},"modified":"2015-04-23T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:29:00","slug":"justice-scalia-compares-taking-private-property-to-communist-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/justice-scalia-compares-taking-private-property-to-communist-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Scalia Compares Taking Private Property to Communist Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raisin growers were before the US Suprmee Court arguing that a law allowing\u00a0the government to take their crops, without just compensation, is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>During the New Deal, farmers got a raw deal. The\u00a01937 Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act permits the taking of crops to shore up prices. \u00a0The great raisin caper of 2015 led the Justices to offer\u00a0colorful fodder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chief Justice Roberts described the law as &#8220;\u201cYou come up with the truck and you get the shovels and you take their raisins, probably in the dark of night.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Justice Scalia described the law thusly,\u00a0\u201cCentral planning was thought to work very well in 1937, and Russia tried it for a long time.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2015\/04\/22\/justices-skeptical-whether-crop-seizure-program-has-a-raisin-detre\/\">WallStreet Journal Headline<\/a>:\u00a0Justices Skeptical Whether Crop Program Has a \u2018Raisin\u2019 D\u2019\u00eatre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raisin growers were before the US Suprmee Court arguing that a law allowing\u00a0the government to take their crops, without just compensation, is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>During the New Deal, farmers got a raw deal. The\u00a01937 Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act permits the taking of crops to shore up prices. \u00a0The great raisin caper of 2015 led the Justices to offer\u00a0colorful fodder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chief Justice Roberts described the law as &#8220;\u201cYou come up with the truck and you get the shovels and&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compensation","category-legal-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}