[F16Fighter]

"What was your take on the Kelo decision? Do you now view it as the shining diadem of Supreme Court jurisprudence?"

Is it your contention that Kelo was a National Security issue?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"Is it your contention that Kelo was a National Security issue?"

ANYTHING can be made a "national security issue." All one needs is "well, we could tell you why, but then we'd have to kill you, but we do have a 1,000-page classified report, so you're going to have to trust us."

And Eminent Domain over those port facilities will be expensive as hell--on the order of billions--and you're still not going to have buyers on the other side of the deal, because nobody's going to commit billions of dollars on a deal that could get reversed on a political whim. You'd end up with the federal government running those ports--and doing so with all the efficiency of the DMV.