{"id":13499,"date":"2012-03-21T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13499"},"modified":"2012-03-21T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:31:50","slug":"property-rights-win-unanimously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13499\/property-rights-win-unanimously\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Rights Win&#8230; UNANIMOUSLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January, attorney Robert Smith wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2012\/01\/13\/moisturizing-the-epa\" target=\"_blank\">a great piece<\/a> at The American Spectator explaining the importance of <em>Sackett v. EPA,<\/em> in which the federal agency told landowners they didn&#8217;t even have the right to gain access to federal courts to challenge EPA&#8217;s administrative ruling that the Sacketts&#8217; property was a &#8220;wetland&#8221; (which it manifestly is not). Today, the Supreme Court came down like a ton of bricks on the EPA and its Obama overlords. It didn&#8217;t just rule in favor of the landowners (thus sending the case back to lower courts to be heard on the merits); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/11pdf\/10-1062.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">it did so <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/11pdf\/10-1062.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">without dissent<\/a>.<\/em> As in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/42-constitution-and-legal\/1266-supreme-court-saves-religious-liberty-from-obama\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hosanna-Tabor<\/em> case<\/a> implicating religious liberty, even the four liberal justices ruled against the administration.<\/p>\n<p>This is important. It means that property rights still matter, despite the manifold attempted deprivations thereof by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January, attorney Robert Smith wrote a great piece at The American Spectator explaining the importance of Sackett v. EPA, in which the federal agency told landowners they didn&#8217;t even have the right to gain access to federal courts to challenge EPA&#8217;s administrative ruling that the Sacketts&#8217; property was a &#8220;wetland&#8221; (which it manifestly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[608,3345,24,3444],"class_list":["post-13499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-epa","tag-hosanna-tabor","tag-obama","tag-sackett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13500,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499\/revisions\/13500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}