Well, any so-called attorney committing to take land from Texas ranchers for this idiotic useless wall will instantly put a target on their backs, and they know it.
P.S. While the shutdown continues you won’t be getting paid, of course, but please apply.
Maybe this will turn Texas blue.
… And ex-military Special Forces experience preferred…
Don’t think the ranchers are going to go down without a fight.
The federal government owns less than one-third of the land on the southern border. The rest belongs to other entities, including states, Native American tribes, and private individuals. Most of the border land in Texas is private property.
Not a problem, said Trump: “You have to use eminent domain,” he declared. That’s when the government forces a property owner to sell, at a price set by the government. “If we had one person that wouldn’t sell us…then we wouldn’t be able to build proper border security because we’d have that big opening.”
“I think it’s a fair process,” he added.
And what happens if Trump can’t seize people’s land with normal eminent domain? That’s where the “military version” comes in:
Trump floats the idea of using “the military version of eminent domain” to immediately seize privately owned land along border to build the wall
— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) January 4, 2019
As explained, “[Lawsuits are] not going to hold [the wall] up because under the military version of eminent domain and under, actually, homeland security we can do it before we even start.”
Trump and many of the other GOP miscreants (including my favorite, failed porn star and American hero - according to former TPM reporter Lauren Fox* - Michele Fiore) praised Clive Bundy and his merry band of genetic defects for breaking the law and threatening federal law enforcement officers. What are they going to do when landowners on the Texas/Mexico border start aiming their long-range rifles at their own sorry asses?
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/who-is-michele-fiore
(Make sure to read the comments. They define the word “evisceration”.)
Can’t we use eminent domain to seize like a foot-wide strip of land across the middle of each golf course Individual-1 owns, then build a big, beautiful steel slat wall fency-thingy across it?
I’ve seen a lot of stuff happen in organizations when some idiot higher-up insisted on doing some dumb thing. People go through the motions, rolling their eyes, because the thing it’s in service of will never happen. Always imagined the Department of Justice was a skosh more serious than that, but this is very enlightening.
Wow…THIS ought to ease tensions at the border…Way to go Donnie…
The schadenfreude is delicious. You want a racist demagogue for your president? Well that decision may end up costing you one day. In the form of your land. Teehee!
Can we use eminent domain to seize this property?
“And under the military version of The Right of First Night, I get to sleep with all of the brides on their wedding night on an aircraft carrier. And the Constitution says the President (only if his name is Trump) gets to make it up as he goes along.”
OH WELL!!! In the words of Charles Montgomery Burns. “Let the fools have their tar tar sauce.”
Let’s hear what Vera Coking has to say. First Bob Guccione and then Trump tried to seize her Atlantic City house and tear it down for casinos. She didn’t wanna and fought them both off.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/View_of_house_between_two_casinos_-Town_of_Atlantic_City%2C_North_end_of_Absecon_Island%2C_South_of_Absecon_Channel%2C_Atlantic_City%2C_Atlantic_County%2C_NJ_HABS_NJ%2C1-ATCI%2C19-3%28CT%29.tif/lossy-page1-800px-thumbnail.tif.jpg
Don’t need to. Just need to cancel the lease.
Oooh now Trump is going to put Abbott and Patrick’s knickers in a twist with this move.
Jade Helm didn’t prepare them all for this scenario.
When can we raise the lease rate?
My reading of this is the military can seize lands from property owners if they’re deemed necessary for a national security reason. There are some hoops to jump through, but in the end should they choose they can just take your land, and the owner’s latitude to dispute or refuse being exceedingly minimal.
Exactly. This looks like something running on autopilot.
Would be quite interesting if the federal government started condemning private property along the border then never did much more than that…