A Battle Of Thugs

I wonder if IMPOTUS’s crack legal team has factored this into the twit’s fantasy?

Nayda Alvarez wants nothing to do with any border wall, but her acre of land in Rio Grande City, Tex., where she lives in a brown house along the dividing line between the United States and Mexico, has become of great interest to the U.S. government.
 
She, along with dozens of other landowners in the Rio Grande Valley, received surprise letters from the federal government in recent months, requests from officials who are seeking access to their properties for surveys, soil tests, equipment storage and other actions. It is, lawyers and experts say, the first step in the government trying to seize private property using the power of eminent domain — a contentious step that could put a lengthy legal wrinkle into President Trump’s plans to build hundreds of miles of wall, some of which passes through land like Alvarez’s.
 
Previous eminent domain attempts along the Texas border have led to more than a decade of court battles, some of which date to George W. Bush’s administration and have yet to be resolved. Many landowners, like Alvarez, are vowing to fight anew.

The highlighting is mine – but here we are 10 years after the end of the Bush administration, (12 years after passage of the 2006 Act authorizing the fence building involved in the eminent domain challenges to his attempted land grab) and those issues are not all resolved.  

Now, I may be over-reacting, but what stood in Bush’s way, in part, and  what will stand in SFB’s way, in part, is the takings clause of the Constitution.  If SFB declares a national emergency over an issue that has gotten better, not worse, over the past 19 years, what is to keep him from suspending the operation of portions of the Constitution to enable him to build his vanity wall with the stolen Corps of Engineer appropriations?

The real face of the Trump Shutdown:

Now on Craigslist, Facebook: Household items from furloughed workers trying to make ends meet
A federal worker in Morgantown, W.Va., took to Facebook this week to sell welding tools, left behind by his deceased father-in-law. Another, a die-hard Star Wars fan in Woodbridge, Va., did the same with a life-size replica of Kylo Ren’s lightsaber. A single father in Indiana hosted a sale on eBay with five pages of things found around the house, including Bibles, Nintendo bedsheets and Dr. Seuss neckties.
 
“Sells for $93.88 at Walmart. Asking $10,” a government worker wrote on a Craigslist ad for a Lulu Ladybug rocking chair. “We need money to pay bills.”
 
As hundreds of thousands of federal workers brace for their first missed paychecks of the government shutdown this week, some have become immersed in the frantic financial calculus of choosing what they can live without.
 
In the United States, living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common, regardless of profession or location. A recent report from the Federal Reserve revealed how little cushion most Americans have in their budgets: Four in 10 adults say they couldn’t produce $400 in an emergency without sliding into debt or selling something, according to the figures that surveyed households in 2017, a relatively prosperous year for the American economy.

Which family members are hurt by the sale of Nintendo bedsheets, Dr. Seuss neckties and Lulu Ladybug rocking chairs?

KC, I doubt SFB will sign it, but I understand that the Senate passed a bill that wil protect government employees’ back pay.  It does not extend necessarily to contractors’ employees, but supposedly does extend to government employees.