I cannot understand what the controversy is. Eminent Domain is in the Constitution. Trump has no control over Eminent Domain.
All our highways have been built as a result of Eminent Domain.
I suggest that the venom being spewed out over a dead issue like Eminent Domain should be reserved for the trade deals that ALL the Republicans voted for. That will touch your lives in ways that Eminent Domain never will.
No sense trying to rain on the trump hate. They need threads like these to vent since the reality is hard for them to deal with.
RE: I cannot understand what the controversy is. Eminent Domain is in the Constitution. Trump has no control over Eminent Domain. All our highways have been built as a result of Eminent Domain.
The intended purpose of eminent domain, is to allow government to acquire properties for true public uses like a highway ( as you mentioned) or a school or critical public infrastructure or defense of the nation.
The Kelo decision that Trump still says he supports DID NONE OF THAT.
It opened the door to even more eminent domain mischief. Eminent domain was already a useful tool for the politically friendly developer, who is only too happy to enlist the force of government to aggregate properties that are difficult to acquire one by one.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the city, but the minority (Justices O’Connor, Scalia, and Thomas, along with Chief Justice William Rehnquist) wrote extremely heated dissenting opinions. Thomas warned: “Today’s decision is simply the latest in a string of our cases construing the Public Use Clause to be a virtual nullity, without the slightest nod to its original meaning. In my view, the Public Use Clause, originally understood, is a meaningful limit on the government’s eminent domain power. Our cases have strayed from the clause’s original meaning, and I would reconsider them.”
As it turned out, the City of New London’s great economic plan never came to fruition and the properties it seized stand 13 years later as a huge vacant lot, after the city and state governments blew $78 million bulldozing the properties.
THAT is what you should understand as to why this is a controversy.
Kelo baby read it
Trump wanted a widow’s house for a parking lot and she would not sell. it’s her house. nothing to do with eminent domain. Trump used eminent domain law to take her house. in AC he made a lot of money in case you haven’t heard. will this phrase go the way of the kerry phrase “i served in viet nam”
i think he won’t make it to feb.