An Excess of Power

From Radley Balko, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute:

This past term, the Supreme Court handed down two rulings that will have a catastrophic effect on our personal freedom. In Raich v. Gonzaelez, the Court ruled that the Constitution's provision to regulate interstate commerce permitted federal agents to raid the home of a sick woman and confiscate the six marijuana plants she was growing for her own medication -- all in a state whose population had overwhelmingly voted to make medical marijuana legal. In Kelo v. New London, the Court found that the phrase "public use" in the Fifth Amendment allows local governments to snatch land from law abiding people, and sell it off to wealthy developers.