We in the Midwest (and South, for that matter), are no strangers to the abuse of eminent domain. But now that the decision has been handed down from the Supreme Court of the United States that private property can be seized by governments for transfer to private developers, it looks like we are going to have some exalted company. Freestar Media is in the planning stages of a project for a hotel to be built on Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s property in Connecticut.