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Trump’s Eminent-Domain Empire
National Review ^ | 4/22/2011 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 04/23/2011 7:05:23 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

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To: muawiyah
They aren’t conservative enough. You know that.

What a display of mendacity - a Trumpette calling the likes of Clarence Thomas not conservative enough. I guess a sense of shame is beyond the average Trumpette's grasp.

81 posted on 04/23/2011 10:47:09 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
BTW, Heller didn't go far enough. The meaning of the 2nd is quite clear and the SCOTUS didn't quite belly up to the bar.

I tell you these guys are not as conservative as they need to be.

82 posted on 04/23/2011 10:52:03 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
The meaning of the 2nd is quite clear and the SCOTUS didn't quite belly up to the bar.

Go suck eggs. You just got done ripping the conservative SCOTUS justices for being progressive about enforcing the Fifth, and now you say they didn't go far enough with Heller - when both deal with clearly enureated rights.

Like I said, no sense of shame.

83 posted on 04/23/2011 10:56:02 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: kickonly88

If Ms. Malkin remembered correctly Atlantic City was in deplorable conditions with half of the taxpayers not paying their taxes, maybe becoming the next Camden. The Casinos may not be perfect but it did help the city and brought in thousands of jobs, made it a heck of a lot better then it was. Ms. Malkin consistently talks about the importance of jobs and are economy, then bad mouths those who create them, what gives?


84 posted on 04/23/2011 11:06:04 AM PDT by jerseyrocks
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To: dirtboy
Two different rulings. Both have federal and state implications. Always siding with the state against the federales is a Conservative principle. Always siding with the individual against the state or the federales is a conservative principle.

In Kelo the court sided with the state against the federales. In Heller the court sided with the individual against the federales.

WHOOPS!! What about the state? Well, they didn't do it ~ did just a half job. The rest of it awaited other lawsuits.

In the end states where the public didn't want their state to have the power CT claimed in takings, they acted to limit that power. Most states already limited the power of the states. CT still hasn't fixed their problem. Apparently the people of CT think the government should be able to force you to sell your property to them and then give it to a different private party.

The tenth amendment is intact in the Kelo situation. It's intact in Heller. At the same time the state constitutions of many states with restrictive gun laws say the same thing as the federal constitution ~ so they can be forced to bend to Heller or son of Heller in later suits.

Too many people imagine that conservative thinking is best exercised through the use of the power of the federal government to force states to adhere to a preconceived conclusion.

85 posted on 04/23/2011 11:13:25 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: jerseyrocks
Michelle is backsliding to the time she first became aware of the term "anchor baby", and realizing she was one changed her mind about how to fix the illegal alien problem.

I wouldn't expect her to fail to tend to number 1.

86 posted on 04/23/2011 11:15:16 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
WHOOPS!! What about the state? Well, they didn't do it ~ did just a half job

Once again, the section of the 5th in question previously had been incorporated. And the position you are taking sides with the liberal wing of the court. Pathetic. Truly pathetic.

Too many people imagine that conservative thinking is best exercised through the use of the power of the federal government to force states to adhere to a preconceived conclusion.

Too many Trumpettes twist the very logic of conservatism to pimp him on FR. Yours is just the latest and most depraved demonstration of such.

87 posted on 04/23/2011 11:23:24 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Servant of the Cross

Most of Trump’s Eminent-Domain Abuses have been catalogued on FreeRepublic in the archives.

Search for “Vera Coking” and “Clare Sabatini” and/or “Vincent Sabatini” on FreeRepublic or atlanticcitypress, three of Trump’s victims.

2006-11-01
12 COKING VS. TRUMP (ROUND 2) / TRUMP THREATENS TO BUILD $3B. CASINO AROUND WIDOW’S ATLANTIC CITY HOME
Author: DONALD WITTKOWSKI Staff Writer, (609) 272-7258

I just noticed something else, DONALD TRUMP ACTIVELY BLACKMAILED NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR JAMES MCGREEVEY WHILE MCGREEVEY WAS GOVERNOR ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE PERIOD BEFORE MCGREEVEY CAME OUT OF THE CLOSET.


88 posted on 04/23/2011 11:24:31 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: muawiyah
In Kelo the court sided with the state against the federales. In Heller the court sided with the individual against the federales.

WRONG! In Kelo the court sided with the state against individuals. In Heller the court sided with individuals against DC, not the federals.

You can't even get the core parties right in your depraved effort to twist Trump's support of Kelo into something less than what should be a fatal blow for conservative support of Trump. I thought you would be better than that. I was apparently wrong.

89 posted on 04/23/2011 11:25:56 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Servant of the Cross; All

Michelle Malkin has always been anti-Birther

These stories about Trump are getting old

Of course, Obama Supporters will look for anything to help Obama

Fact is....the majority of people who have benefitted from Eminent Domain are either GOP politicians or GOP contributors. The Dems have their fair share too. Doubt Ms Malkin will reserach that...it hurts her Liberal RINO agenda

If Mrs Malkin is truly a conservative...she would spend more time working to get that Obama Long Form Birth Certificate than posting stuff she regurgitated from some liberal website.

I have already seen this story....it has been written by 5 different people in the past three days. Some liberal wrote this 3 days ago

Michelle Malkin...you are no conservative. I challenge you to a debate anywhere, anytime. Covering up on the Obama Eligibility issue is not conservative


90 posted on 04/23/2011 11:40:57 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Karl Rove = Karl Marx)
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To: Servant of the Cross

http://www.ij.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1003&Itemid=165

http://www.zeitz-law.com/articleScans/zeitz2.pdf
Coking vs. C.R.D.A., Donald Trump, and Trump Plaza
Represented senior citizen and widow Vera Coking successfully against Donald Trump, Trump Plaza, and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority in eminent domain and personal injury cases where they collectively tried to take her property by eminent domain for a project adjacent to the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City. This mater is a reported decision in New Jersey (C.R.D.A. v. Banin, 320 N.J.Super. 342 (Law Div. 1998)) where the New Jersey Superior Court upheld Ms. Coking’s right to keep her property and awarded attorney’s fees and costs on her behalf. Her personal injury case was settled on her behalf during the course of trial in Atlantic City, New Jersey.


91 posted on 04/23/2011 11:42:52 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: o2bfree

National Review = Romney Campaign = RINO Rag


And totally in the tank for Obama....

Geez...when will these RINOs devote as much time to Obama Eligibility as they do what nostril Donald Trump picked on April 23 1987?


92 posted on 04/23/2011 11:43:10 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Karl Rove = Karl Marx)
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To: dirtboy
Hmm, here we go again on the Constitution. The DC government is a creation made by Congress ~ not a state.

It is inescapable that whatever it is in charge of DC it's an agent of the federal government in the final analysis, so you have to GO TO THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF to see what the individual's prerogatives might be.

Heller could NOT be a case of the individual against a state since there was no state involved.

In Kelo you had two parties to the conflict, neither one of them the federal government. The right of a state, CT, to interpret its own laws was left intact.

In most of the states where there was a comparable issue (and remember, the US states were all over the place with how takings limitations should be interpreted in their laws), people took action to FIX the problem. In CT they didn't. There an individual has to bend over and take it ~ that's why they vote for all the Progressive Leftwingtard nut cases they send to DC. They are "different" ~ the court gave them what they want. Kelo seems to have been the only individual in the state who didn't like the way they abuse people, but Kelo could move and should have done so long ago.

Again, a warning to any conservatives in New England, if you can't win elections and can't get justice in court GET OUT OF THERE before they kill you and sell your chilluns in the public markets.

93 posted on 04/23/2011 11:43:16 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Hmm, here we go again on the Constitution. The DC government is a creation made by Congress ~ not a state.

Gawd, the DC city council, functioning just like gun-grabbing city councils in Chicago and NY, passed the laws in question. Not the feds.

The only question raised by Heller being based in DC was the matter of incorporation to the states, not the manner and level of the gun control laws in question.

But go ahead and keep twisting fundamental truths, Trumpette. It's all you've got.

94 posted on 04/23/2011 11:51:01 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: JerseyHighlander
Your second reference is CRDA against Coking ~ and others. I don't see Donald Trump mentioned. Could it be this is the ORIGINAL takings motion that was against Coking, et al, for the purpose of obtaining that property for assignment to Bob Guccione?

Bet it is ~ don't you?

Coking, et al, then went against Donald Trump BUT in a separate action.

Some of the problem has been with the courts which are, at different times at different levels "mobbed up" by different entities, none of whom are even named in these suits.

This last case left A.CRDA in an untenable position no matter which way they went.

After going over more of the court intrigue I suspect there was not then nor is there now a legislative fix for the A.CRDA ~ New Jersey is lucky to have gotten so much of this work done before it all ground to a halt. That place was N A S T Y

95 posted on 04/23/2011 11:52:36 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
And totally in the tank for Obama....

The author, Michelle Malkin, has repeatedly ripped Obama. But since you can't attack her anti-Obama bona fides, not the issues she is raising, I guess you gotta attack where it is published.

Another stellar display of depravity from the Trumpettes.

96 posted on 04/23/2011 11:54:35 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

Dirtboy, how the DC city council operates is of no consequence. They were created by Congress. The Chicago city council wasn’t. I expect at a minimum that you stick to federalist principles when studying the Constitutional issues. The individual bringing suit in Heller lived in DC. He was, in effect, suing the federal government to adhere to the Constitution. Try this brief. It includes Scalia’s summary of the who struck johns ~ http://www.lawnix.com/cases/dc-heller.html


97 posted on 04/23/2011 11:58:35 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: dirtboy

The author, Michelle Malkin, has repeatedly ripped Obama. But since you can’t attack her anti-Obama bona fides, not the issues she is raising, I guess you gotta attack where it is published.

Another stellar display of depravity from the Trumpettes.


Great....Michelle Malkin has ripped Obama. I am sure other Obama Supporters have ripped him, too.

Malkin has been anti-Birther from the beginning. She has ridiculed and harangued Birthers....and must be frustrated that her RINOness has not been real effective

Instead of attacking Trump with re-postings of liberal media articles....why not devote more energy to Obama Eligibility....oh wait....that would be contrary to Obama’s re-election

BTW, DC is not a state....it actually gets its funding from Congress.


98 posted on 04/23/2011 11:59:57 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Karl Rove = Karl Marx)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
Malkin has been anti-Birther from the beginning. She has ridiculed and harangued Birthers....and must be frustrated that her RINOness has not been real effective

Birthers like you make me want to say take your movement and shove it where it don't shine - and I am otherwise sympathetic to it.

Birtherism is not the sole litmus test of conservatism, despite your fervent belief to the contrary. And I will take Malkins calm and rational reasoning over your idiotic Trump bloviating any day of the week.

99 posted on 04/23/2011 12:03:29 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: muawiyah
Dirtboy, how the DC city council operates is of no consequence. They were created by Congress. The Chicago city council wasn’t. I expect at a minimum that you stick to federalist principles when studying the Constitutional issues.

It wasn't Congress that passed the laws in question, but the DC council acting like city councils around the country.

Like I said, the only federalist consideration was whether a finding of individual rights in Heller would be incorporated as a result of the ruling. Your attempt to imply anything more, yet again, shows the extent to which you are twisting logic.

100 posted on 04/23/2011 12:05:30 PM PDT by dirtboy
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