May 25, 2023
Last month I wrote about a case that the Pacific Legal Foundation was arguing before the Supreme Court. At issue in the case, Tyler v. Hennepin County was the outright theft of Geraldine Tyler's home equity. Geraldine is 94 years old, and currently living in a nursing home, having been driven out of her condo due to high crime (caused by the failure of the city and the county to enforce the law). She fell behind in her property taxes, and the county sold her condo and kept all the money, including equity that remained after paying her tax bill. It was an appalling act of government theft, but of course, appalling and government are often found in the same sentence. Well, the Supreme Court ruled on the case today, and the news, for once, is good. The good guys won by a unanimous decision. Every single Justice agreed that Hennepin County is a bunch of lying, thieving, greedy, and tyrannical bunch of MFers. Uh, maybe that last part is hyperbole. They only said lying, thieving and gree