[DoodleDawg]

If the feds own the land in question, did they purchase it under the eminent domain clause of the 5th Amendment, or under the Constitution’s Clause 17 of Secton 8 of Article I? And I don’t see how Clause 17 would apply in this case.

They took it from Mexico in 1848.

[bert]

more precisely, Mexico, Santa Ana to be specific, lost it in a war in which combined American arms under the Generalship of Winfield Scott captured Mexico City and the US Marines victoriously visited the Halls of Montezuma