NJ Eminent Domain Case: Local Government Officials Attempt to Seize Family Farm

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- According to reports, Andy Henry—the owner of a family farm in Middlesex County—has rejected offers of up to $30 million to sell the Cranbury, NJ farmland his great-grandfather purchased in 1850. However, Cranbury officials are now planning to seize the 21-acre family-owned farm via eminent domain with the intention of building affordable housing in its place. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Republican New Jersey Gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli have both spoken out against the seizure and offered support to the Henry family. In a post to X, Sec. Rollins wrote: “The Biden-style government takeover of our family farms is over.” 3:30pm- While speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump revealed that Iranian officials have requested to meet with him at the White House. Could a peace agreement soon be reached?

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0:16.0	Yeah, Karen Reid found not guilty on manslaughter charge.
0:19.8	That was a case that had been consuming the media for weeks and weeks and weeks.
0:24.5	And maybe we'll talk about that as the show goes on today.
0:27.4	But a couple Supreme Court cases, by the way.
0:31.3	Number one is the one that today upholding Tennessee's ban on transgender medical procedures for minors.
0:36.7	Good, excellent, excellent decision
0:38.1	by the court. We'll have our friend Sarah Partial Perry joining us from the Heritage Foundation
0:43.3	a little bit later today to break it down and discuss because she's an expert on this stuff.
0:48.3	And I'm excited for that too. But, you know, as we begin the show today, I want to talk about
0:52.4	eminent domain and this issue in New Jersey
0:56.3	with this farm that is now getting national attention.
0:59.4	And the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, is involved in this too.
1:03.2	This comes an anniversary of another Supreme Court decision called Kilo, where, you know,
1:09.4	it's funny, I mean, not funny, it's tragic what happened here.
1:13.1	The Supreme Court ruled that the government can use the power of eminent domain to take
1:20.3	your property if they can find a business development use for it, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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