OK, now that I’ve read the story twice....
It seems TWO TIMES Trump tried this, and both times he failed.
SO.... these ‘owners’ did not lose their property. Anyone who says TRUMP STOLE their property through Imminent Domain laws is wrong.
As I said on another thread, NO ONE seems to mind the use of Imminent Domain when they drive down the Interstate.
CALLER: Of Republican candidates saying we’re going to build a wall. We can sit there and listen to a three-second sound bite. And then they have to go the moderate route and they never mention it again. Donald Trump gets stuff done.
PAT: What stuff does he get done?
STU: Bankrupting casinos? What does he get done?
PAT: He built a few buildings.
STU: You know how he gets it done? Eminent domain. He steals people’s properties, their private property, and gets giant casinos built. Congratulations for using the government that way.
CALLER: Okay. No one is going to like 100 percent of what —
PAT: I don’t like 1 percent of what he does!
Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/07/13/i-dont-like-1-of-what-hes-done-pat-and-stu-lose-it-on-trump-caller/?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_medium=contentcopy_link
>>NO ONE seems to mind the use of Imminent Domain when they drive down the Interstate.
There a different types of Eminent Domain.
Using eminent domain for a purely public use, such as building a highway, is not controversial.
At issue is the use of eminent domain to transfer property from one citizen to another, under the rubric of “redevelopment”. Although the SCOTUS upheld this in Kelo v. New London, I believe it is a tyrannical power that should be ended, by constitutional amendment if necessary.
I do not think less of Trump for attempting to use it. The problem is that the government has been ceded this power to begin with.
This is a non-story.