And eventually a tactic like this was to hit the USSC in the case called Kelo, which ironically made a good counterexample to the WISDOM of such a move... the would be purchaser never followed through and it went to waste. More than forty states also added provisos to their law to limit eminent domain in some fashion in the wake of Kelo. Nothing about Kelo said a state had to have an equally lax policy; this was not the Roe v. Wade of eminent domain. Federalism arguably did the right thing here.
So you agree with Kelo? Should we strike the words “public use” from Amendment V and replace them with the words ‘public good’? Because not even Bernie Sanders believes that. But Trump does.