"If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be the target of a government agency that covets your home, go see a new movie called 'Little Pink House.' It is largely the backstory of Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005). In case you have forgotten, Kelo was the case that earned incredible enmity from the general U.S. populace when it approved the condemnation of an unoffending working class neighborhood to provide upscale shopping and homes as an adjunct to a large Pfizer pharmaceutical operation. (It gets even worse—spoiler alert—because, after the homes were bulldozed and torn down, nothing was ever built. The cleared land is now home to feral animals. But that gets ahead of the story.)"
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