Everyone here hates eminent domain as they drive on their local highway built using eminent domain.
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Strawman. The eminent domain Trump favors is that which takes private homes from their owners and gives them to private developers - like Trump - for that developer’s own private profit.
Using eminent domain to construct public infrastructure like highways is substantially different from using it to redistribute private property.
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Quite right, Oceander. The US Constitution provides for the employment of “eminent domain” only for property that will be put to ‘PUBLIC USE”.
Liberals/Progressives/RINOs/the Supreme Court AND DONALD TRUMP have twisted PUBLIC USE to mean seizing property for private development and private use. Nice company Trump keeps.
Correct. They will try to justify the taking by rationalizing that it is, in effect, “public use” because such projects will “create jobs”. Well, lots of projects might create jobs, but that is not good enough to take private property.