[Helicondelta]

Without eminent domain there is no keystone pipeline.

[proust]

I wouldn’t mind getting one of those nice eminent domain payouts.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Except for, you know, honestly purchasing the land from the current owners of private property for a fair market value.

[elhombrelibre]

And that's a way of pointing out that there are legitimate uses for eminent domain and there are self-serving ones that do nothing for general public. Trump's use was for Trump. It was an abuse of what can be a useful legal tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmM4ZBoppNQ

[IMR 4350]

Pipelines are necessary for the national defense, what part of that are you too dumb to understand?

[ScottinVA]

Without eminent domain abuse there is theft of private property in favor of developers with connections to city leaders.

[BfloGuy]

Without eminent domain there is no keystone pipeline.

No one -- absolutely no one -- questions the need for eminent domain.

But Trump believes it's just fine for the government to take your property and give or sell it to another private citizen because it likes what he'll do with it.

Eminent domain was not meant to seize your property only to give it to someone else; it was intended for public uses.

Do you -- can you understand the difference?

[dem bums]

Without eminent domain there is no keystone pipeline.

Vital infrastructure (such as roads, bridges, pipelines, etc.) = Public use

Limousine parking lot = NOT public use

[SC_Pete]

Or bridges, highways, trains, airports, sewage systems, water, sanitation, tunnels, damns, levies, canals, power plants, solar panel farms, wind turbine farms, and on and on and on.
Eminent domnain must be used wisely—but it is unavoidable.

[SC_Pete]

Or bridges, highways, trains, airports, sewage systems, water, sanitation, tunnels, damns, levies, canals, power plants, solar panel farms, wind turbine farms, and on and on and on.
Eminent domnain must be used wisely—but it is unavoidable.