Eminent Domain Used to Build Bush Library at SMU

(Before It's News)

SMU used eminent domain to acquire the 347 unit University Gardens condominium complex to build Bush library.

Did SMU misuse eminent domain for Bush to build Bush Library?Eminent domain: a right of a government to take private property for public use by virtue of the superior dominion of the sovereign power over all lands within its jurisdiction. The state took the homes by eminent domain to build the new road. 

SMU was considered the favorite to receive the library, principally because of its ties to the Bushes and their advisers. Laura Bush received her undergraduate degree in elementary education from the school in 1968 and since 2000 has been a member of its board of trustees. Vice President Cheney was in 1996 the “diplomat in residence” at SMU’s John Taylor Center for political studies, and also served as a trustee. Bush adviser Karen Hughes, and White House counsel Harriet Miers – who is also advising the library selection committee – possess SMU degrees.

Could there have been some high powered influence within SMU to make sure the former President got the location he wanted for the Bush Presidential Library and Muesum?

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