[nathanbedford]

Trump is right about eminent domain. There would be no interstate highways, airports or oil pipelines without it.

Nobody that I know of is seriously arguing that it is wrong to condemn property to build interstate highways, airports or oil pipelines, the argument is over whether condemnation can constitutionally and morally be employed to seize someone's house to build a parking lot for limousines for gamblers attending Donald Trump's casino?

What does the Constitution say?

Article V says:'nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.'

So the question becomes whether under the United States Constitution (and the New Jersey Constitution and enabling statutes for that matter) a limousine parking lot for Donald Trump is a "public use"?

This is the acme of crony capitalism in which a city can accede to the ambitions of a developer like Donald Trump and condemn property for his economic advantage, then justify it to the courts because it enhances tax rolls.

The Supreme Court, of course, has ruled that such takings are for a public "use." Does that make Trump right? Does it tell you that Donald Trump believes in limited government? Does it tell you whether or not Donald Trump will invoke government to his advantage at the cost of much weaker people?

Doesn't it tell you what kind of man Donald Trump is?

[1Old Pro]

Article V says:'nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.'

The question becomes, what is just compensation? I think when property is "taken" the compensation needs to have a significant premium to market value.

[Yaelle]

It tells you that Donald Trump has used laws to get ahead in his businesses.

It doesn’t tell you how he would represent the American people.

We have to use our imaginations and the knowledge we have of him to know how he’d lead as our ultimate representative. I put all the info together in my brain and consolidate it, and I hope I am right. Trump is a true patriot, he’s at the end of his successful career, and he wants the free country, the powerful moral world leader, he remembers, for his kids and grandkids. He was waiting for someone to lead us. No one suitable has come along. He knows he could do it, but he’d rather someone else. But no one else is stepping up. His issues are essential issues. His goals are essential goals. He doesn’t seem to be of the same cloth as the politicians that say one thing but once they get in, they clearly are all about gathering money, sex, and power for themselves. These are not needs of Trump. I conclude that he will die trying to do what he is setting out to do. My vote is for Trump.