[DiogenesLamp]

If you have done so then certainly you can provide an example where the federal government used eminent domain to take state property without the approval of the state legislature. I'm looking forward to your examples.

Didn't Clinton seize a bunch of land in Utah to prevent mining of high quality anthracite coal? Didn't he also ban drilling in large swaths of Alaska?

Not eminent domain, but just as good.

[DoodleDawg]

Didn't Clinton seize a bunch of land in Utah to prevent mining of high quality anthracite coal? Didn't he also ban drilling in large swaths of Alaska?

In Utah he prevented mining by creating a National Monument on what was already federal-owned land. In Alaska he prevented oil drilling in a federal wildlife preserve.

Not eminent domain, but just as good.

Not even close to the same. In both cases the land already belonged to the federal government and there was no need to take it from anyone through any means.