Quote:I have always been against the use of eminent domain to force private property owners to sell to other private interests. Like forcing a tire store to sell out so a Sears can be built there.


On the other hand, Donald Trump just loooves eminent domain:

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nationalreview.com/article/265171/donald-trump-and-eminent-domain-robert-verbruggen'>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/265171/donald-trump-and-eminent-domain-robert-verbruggen</a>



Here's another one:

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://read//www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/19/donald-trumps-abuse-of-eminent-domain/'>http://read:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/19/donald-trumps-abuse-of-eminent-domain/</a>


"When the Supreme Court narrowly upheld “economic development” takings that transfer property to private parties in the 2005 Kelo case, the ruling <a class="bbc_url" href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/06/04/the-political-and-judicial-reaction-to-kelo/'>was widely denounced on both left and right</a>. But Trump <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/19/donald-trumps-eminent-domain-nearly-cost-widow-house'>defended it</a> stating that “I happen to agree with it 100%. if you have a person living in an area that’s not even necessarily a good area, and … government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and … create thousands upon thousands of jobs and beautification and lots of other things, I think it happens to be good.”"