Keystone=TransCanada seizing property rights of U.S. citizens against their will

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Do Keystone Pipeline supporters also support Canadians seizing Americans' land?

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Do liberals support any government using imminent domain?

Because it sounds like the government is the problem here, not the property owners.

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In fact, the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc?—?the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the now-retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas (none of whom was a Bush appointee)?—?had dissented from Stevens’s majority opinion. It was the High Court’s liberal faction?—?Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the since-retired David Souter?—?along with swing-voter Anthony Kennedy?—?who had formed the narrow majority. O’Connor’s dissenting opinion was particularly scathing. “Today the Court abandons [the Fifth Amendment’s] long-held, basic limitation on government power,” she wrote. “Under the banner of economic development, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner, so long as it might be upgraded, i.e., given to an owner who will use it in a way that the legislature deems more beneficial to the public?—?in the process.”

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This is no different that Exxon, Shell or any other company exercising these rights.

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voting

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Canadian company has been threatening to confiscate private land

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has the right to force lease agreements

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SpidermanTUba

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Keystone=TransCanada seizing property rights of U.S. citizens against their will

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