About 60 people rallied in the small New Hampshire town of Weare on Sunday, where Justice David Souter has a house.

The protesters say they have enough signatures from Weare residents to put their proposal to a town vote in March.

They want a compulsory purchase order on the 200-year-old farmhouse, and say they will build a hotel in its place.

Campaign organiser Logan Clements, from Los Angeles, told supporters in Weare the Supreme Court had "shot a hole in the [US] Constitution".

Judge Souter was in a 5-4 majority on the court panel that ruled last June that the city of New London in Connecticut could seize homes to make way for a hotel, convention centre, office space and flats.

It's high time one of these pompous liberal-elitist justices got a dose of their own medicine and apparently as it happens, Souter has the most scenic property. Real people -- average middle class folks like you and I -- in Connecticut, Florida, Niagara Falls, New York, California and dozens of other places around the country have to deal with this blatant abuse of governmental power for no other purpose than to expand the tax bases of tax-money addicted governments and their uncontrollable appetites for spending. It's only fitting that one of these gibbering, blithering idiots in black robes who purport to be "justices" have to suffer the consequences of their own "rulings".