Trumps Border Wall Sh*t Just Got Real-Texans Receive Notices To Sell Or Have Their Land Taken

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55. They'll use 'eminent domain'...

People have had that "attribute of sovereignty" used by the government for a very long time. It's gone before SCOTUS and the gov has won. If anything it's gotten worse since a SCOTUS case in 2005 where property was seized by gov for use by a business.

Anyway, here's more info: https://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-domain

The federal government’s power of eminent domain has long been used in the United States to acquire property for public use. Eminent domain ''appertains to every independent government. It requires no constitutional recognition; it is an attribute of sovereignty.” Boom Co. v. Patterson, 98 U.S. 403, 406 (1879). However, the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution stipulates: “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Thus, whenever the United States acquires a property through eminent domain, it has a constitutional responsibility to justly compensate the property owner for the fair market value of the property. See Bauman v. Ross, 167 U.S. 548 (1897); Kirby Forest Industries, Inc. v. United States, 467 U.S. 1, 9-10 (1984).

While I logically sort of understand the need for eminent domain it bugs the heck out of me that Trump's going to use it to build a wall that's going to be as useless as tits on a boar hog at stopping people determined to get on this side of it.