Trump Justice Department supports taking private property
Story Date: 7/11/2018

 

Source: Gary Baise, FARM FUTURES, 7/1018

In June 2018, Noel Francisco, Solicitor General for the Department of Justice and Jeffrey Wood, Acting Assistant Attorney General, argued in a brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in the Louisiana invisible frog case that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services could take a citizen’s private property if “…the costs of designation were not disproportionate to its benefits…”  Both Francisco and Wood are Trump appointees.

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