AUSTIN, Texas (WBAP/KLIF News) — Politically, the times, they are a changin’.
Since his election in 2015 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the federal government seventeen times. His predecessor, now Governor Greg Abbott, filed 31 suits against the Obama administration. Now, they both support various federal initiatives including President Trump’s proposed wall along the Mexican border.
In an interview with the Dallas Morning News Paxton said he would support the administration’s plans to use eminent domain to purchase private property to build the wall.
Paxton says he supports private property owners rights but the government has a legal right and an obligation to take parcels of land when it meets a legitimate purpose. The proposed wall, he said, is a “public purpose providing safety to people not only along the border, but to the entire nation.”
Still, if construction of the wall is to go forward the federal government will have to resolve a lot of claims and legal disputes over private and municipal lands.
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