UPDATE Trump, the Widow, Eminent Domain, CATO & Washington Post

Once upon a time, Trump sought to use eminent domain against a widow’s home to obtain land to build a limo parking lot. Today the story is on the front of the Washington Post Style Section.

CATO: Donald Trump, Eminent Domain, and the Widow’s House

Washington Post: The time Donald Trump’s empire took on a stubborn widow — and lost

Information Intelligence Ausgust 27, 2015:

CATO, the libertarian leaning think tank, sounding the horn on Donald Trump and his reliance on eminent domain.

The juicy bits:

• “But no one seems to have brought up a bullying business practice he’s particularly fond of: eminent domain.”
• Trump benefits “from the coercive power of the state to kick innocent Americans out of their homes.”
• “Conservatives were especially outraged by this assault on property rights. Not Donald Trump, though. He told Neil Cavuto on Fox News: “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.””

CATO