Hit piece.
As Ted Cruz would say: “Truth is not rhetoric”
And this isn’t a hit piece.
from 2011
time travelling hit pieces!
Check the date.
It’s why Trump is a non starter with me.
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But the article is right. The businessman in Trump LIKES Kelo and the ability to force a person to sell their property if he wants it.
I listened to “Art of The Deal,” concerning this particular case about the woman in Atlantic City. Apparently, she was the only hold out and her place was a shack. She should have taken the $1 million dollars and improved her status. I would have. That was far more than what it was worth. I know our local hospital bought out an entire street with Imminent domain policy. The people got far more for their properties than what they were worth. It was a win/win for everyone.
Important facts become “hit pieces” when they expose your sugar daddy?
We need more of these hit pieces before America makes a fool of herself again.
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RE: Hit piece.
SO? TRUE OR FALSE, That is the more important question.
Donald Trump is the greatest weapon that the left had ever unleashed. He converts conservatives into socialists with a few magic words.
Not if he really said it.
You really think someone who "agrees with Kelo 100%" should be naming future judges?
I'll wait for verification.
It amazes me how many on FR have bought into the Trump mania without thinking about what they are doing. A certain President of ours talked all pretty-like too...
Anyway, it also amazed me how many Trump supporters will NOT dispute or disprove things like this eminent domain issue..but rather, will call it a “it piece” or call the author names.
Another troll journalist making up news again...
Trump is a businessman, and businessmen do what businessmen do. If there is a law that the government can ‘loop hole’ why not other people...
If the government doesn’t like the type of laws they are made to pass because they took money from lobbists and PAC people, oil people, and others, then they shouldn’t have taken the money....
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander....
How’s it a hit piece? Trump states “100% support” to the Kelo decision.
Hope they keep it up. Trump's popularity will jump up another 2 or 3 percentage points.
Trump did try to use eminent domain to oust an old lady from her home so he could build a parking garage. The problem is government just has too much power. When it’s for sale, people will buy it.
Yes it was a hit piece.
The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment allows the government to take private property for “public use,” so long as “just compensation” is paid.
The pro-GOPE, low-information author of the referenced article was unsurprisingly not taught the following about the 5th Amendment. The Founding States had originally decided that the states didn’t have to respect the prohibitions and limitations of “government” power in the Bill of Rights.
In other words, unless the Constitution expressly prohibits or limits certain powers to the states, general limitations of “government” power in the Constitution, such as the government being required to compensate for land in eminent domain cases, originally applied only to the federal government, not to the states.
In fact, as evidenced by the state eminent domain case of Barron v. Baltimore (Barron), the state governments could basically seize private property without needing an excuse or providing compensation.
It wasn’t until the 14th Amendment was ratified that the states obligated themselves to at least compensate a former land owner for seizing land like the feds must do. But it remains that the states still don’t need an excuse to take land as evidenced by developers working with local and state officials in cases like Kelo, regardless that local or state governments must now pay for seized property.
So even after all the time since Barron was decided and the 14th Amendment later ratified, pro-GOPE citizens still aren't making a distinction between different limitations on state and federal government powers as enumerated in the Constitution.
The fact that it may very well be a hit piece doesn’t make it any less true. Trump has long supported eminent domain when it profits his interests. The Kelo decision strikes to thw heart of where we stand in our relationship with feral government.
It’s actually a review of his position on an important policy question that has traditionally mattered to conservatives.