First of all, you don’t need eminent domain to build the pipeline. The Koch brothers have built a lot of them without ever using eminent domain. You just route and re-route.
Second,energy — the free flow of oil at market prices — is related to national security. If the supply is too small, the price goes too high and the hostile Middle Eastern Islamofascist regimes have us over a barrel, so to speak.
So it’s a completely different thing from what Trump did.
I think you're right, but not necessarily because of eminent domain.
Warren Buffet, who owns the railroads that are needed if Keystone isn't built, also owns Cruz.
Cruz won't be allowed to support Keystone.
His puppet strings won't let him go there.
And you're worried about a lady who was offered $1.8 million, a lady who owed $25,000 in back taxes on her pig sty.
Several states have now written "blight" into their eminent domain clauses.