What legalese conceals, a heart-wrenching film reveals. Not only does the 2017 film “Little Pink House“ show why June 23, 2005, was a grave day in U.S. legal history, it humanizes the victims of this tragedy for the American dream.
The Supreme Court’s famous Kelo decision, which narrowly rejected an eminent-domain appeal, went against the deepest values of the American republic. As written by Ilya Somin of George Mason University in his book “The Grasping Hand,“ ”this case often cut across conventional ideological divisions,“ since private property is ”a central part of the American constitutional tradition and of our political culture.”
