Well, if I didn't know any better, or have read the Kelo ruling, I'd had different thoughts. No More. Kelo is now, and will be damned for ages to come for the heartless heartaches caused to many aged people that are forced to move out. They will die sooner. In their ruling, the SCOTUS left an out for states to legislate their own immanent domain law, if they choose. Globalization lobbyists are now hard at work in Texas, and will be working on the other states effected by the project. The project isn't really dead or alive yet, but still breathing. Like I mentioned, lots of pieces to put together yet.
On the bright side, globalization is in the open, and because of the Internet, will easier know about, and fight, of which I believe, the American people will do.
Why in hell do you believe a Kelo decision was necessary to condemn land for transportation projects? It has been done without difficulty THOUSANDS of times.
The feds even passed a law LONG before this which establishes the procedures and methods of determining payment to those whose lands were taken called the Uniform Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act. This is OLD HAT.
Where have you been for the last fifty years wherein cities and states seized millions of parcels of property? Were you so entirely UNAWARE as to what has been going on that you actually thought Kelo was something new?