Look Who’s Trying to Seize Private Property
The Trump administration wants to use eminent domain to build the border wall.
by Conor Friedersdorf
Nov 18, 2019
2 minutes
A candidate in the 2020 presidential race wants the federal government to seize the private property of dozens of Texans under the dubious pretext of a national emergency. I refer not to Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, but to President Donald Trump, whose lack of respect for private-property rights goes back decades.
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