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While the Senate Committee on the Judiciary grills Judge Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court will decide one of the biggest property rights cases of recent years.<\/p>\n

The case concerns a Wisconsin family who argue the government has unconstitutionally taken their land by refusing to allow them to sell it.<\/p>\n

The Murr family owns two pieces of property on the St. Croix River in Wisconsin. They attempted to sell one of their waterfront lots (called \u201cLot E\u201d) to finance improvements to a cabin they own on the second plot (called \u201cLot F\u201d). The value of Lot E had been assessed at $400,000. Environmental officials blocked the sale for violating conservation rules. A county board further declared that state law required the two lots be merged into a single piece of property that could not be broken up and sold in smaller parcels.<\/p>\n

If effect, the Murr family argues, the government-mandated merger of their properties stripped them of nearly half a million dollars, as they are now unable sell Lot E. They argue this constitutes a violation of the Constitution\u2019s\u00a0takings clause<\/a>, which prohibits the government from seizing private property for public use without \u201cjust compensation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt our rights had been violated,\u201d\u00a0 Donna Murr<\/a>\u00a0told The Associated Press.\u00a0\u201cIf the government is going to take your property, they need to pay for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201ctaking\u201d of the sort that occurred here is not a taking in the usual sense \u2014 the government has not seized any of the Murr\u2019s land. Rather, the family was subjected to a \u201cregulatory taking\u201d in which a law or regulation has\u00a0effectually stripped them of their property.<\/p>\n

Click here to read more from the Daily Caller.<\/a><\/p>\n

The fact that the Supreme Court even has to rule on such an egregious instance of government overreach proves our country is in deep trouble. And given recent Court decisions, it isn\u2019t clear they\u2019ll rule in favor of the Constitution and individual liberty. That\u2019s why an Article V Convention of States is so necessary. A Convention of States can propose constitutional amendments that strip both the regulatory state and the Supreme Court of their almost unlimited power.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"