Civil Liberties

More on Alabama's Eminent Domain Through the Back Door

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As Jesse Walker noted earlier this month, officials in Montgomery, Alabama have been seizing and demolishing private property without providing just compensation to the owners as required by the Constitution, something the libertarian historian David Beito has rightly denounced as "eminent domain through the back door." Here are a few more of the infuriating details, courtesy of the local Fox affiliate: