{"id":60,"date":"2014-09-12T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2014\/09\/12\/how-do-you-avoid-the-legislature-give-the-governor-sole-eminent-domain-authority\/"},"modified":"2014-09-12T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T20:57:00","slug":"how-do-you-avoid-the-legislature-give-the-governor-sole-eminent-domain-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/how-do-you-avoid-the-legislature-give-the-governor-sole-eminent-domain-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you avoid the Legislature? Give the Governor sole eminent domain authority."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An end run around the Legislature to give the Nebraska Governor sole eminent domain authority for TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline has raised eye\u00a0brows. It\u2019s currently the subject of contentious litigation before the Nebraska Supreme Court. Legislators don\u2019t like their powers taken away. Toddlers don\u2019t like their toys taken away. The bill had a bumpy committee hearing and the press seized it. The press likes discovering that a legislator\u00a0can\u2019t answer questions\u00a0about his bill in a committee hearing and refers the\u00a0questions to corporate officials who brought him the bill. Prepare legislators. Don\u2019t just drop off a draft and walk away. Prep legislators like you\u2019d prep a witness for trial.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2014\/09\/11\/transcanada_rep_helped_nebraska_senator_shape_new_law_favouring_pipeline.html\" style=\"font-family:'Questrial-Regular';font-size:18px;line-height:normal;\">\u00a0[Toronto Star]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An end run around the Legislature to give the Nebraska Governor sole eminent domain authority for TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline has raised eye\u00a0brows. It\u2019s currently the subject of contentious litigation before the Nebraska Supreme Court. Legislators don\u2019t like their powers taken away. Toddlers don\u2019t like their toys taken away. The bill had a bumpy committee hearing and the press seized it. The press likes discovering that a legislator\u00a0can\u2019t answer questions\u00a0about his bill in a committee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation-trend","category-pipelines-common-carriers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}