Eminent Domain

Because of the Supreme Court decision last month regarding the use of "Eminent Domain", there are all kinds of legislation popping up all over the country.
How dare the Supreme Court "rewrite" the constitution. Since when can the Supreme Court make laws ? I thought that it was the job of Congress. Nevertheless, they got away with it and Congress is letting them get away with it. There goes another one of our protections due to liberal intrusion.
An interesting situation is occurring in Texas. The University of Texas (a state financed business) not only went after a section of the poorer part of Austin, but asked that it be re-assessed at $1/ house and $1/ business in a four square block area in order to build a luxury hotel. Even though UT has a "strangle hold" on the city of Austin, the state legislators are scrambling to make a law protecting property owners because if UT gets their way, it could cause a mini civil war in that city.
Texans will fight to the death to protect what is theirs; and by UT jumping on the Supreme Court decision within 24 hours of it, the public is outraged.
The problem is that the State Capitol is within walking distance of UT and some of the state legislators are UT graduates (with allegiance to UT). UT always gets what it wants from the state. They have huge holdings of property and businesses, some of which merely stand idle with no use or improvements. UT is not used to not getting its way and there will be quite a fight between the university and the state over this. If they get away with it, there will be no reason for anyone to own any property in Texas any longer.
The question comes up that if UT wants to build a luxury hotel, why don't they do it on some of that unimproved land that they own in choice areas throughout the city of Austin ? Most of the people that either work at or are students at UT don't realize that UT has lost its original intention of being a facility of education and has quietly become a business in competition with private enterprise.
A perfect example of this is seen in what they call the "Burnt Orange Project". It was originally set up to make three low budget movies each year using students from their film school to actually learn (hands on) the process of movie making. What happened was that UT hired people from Hollywood to make the movie and allowed a handful of students to be goffers for their productions. When word of this got out into the film community in L.A., they lost several distribution contacts.
Bottom line is that UT is a business hiding behind the facade of being a state university.
Now we wait to see what the state legislators are going to do. The problem is that all of this is being "hushed up" because UT also dictates what the local newspapers, radio and TV stations can release about them. Texas has always had the "good old boy" way of doing business and politics; but this crosses that line between what is acceptable and what is outragious.
Any of you that are reading this and are living in Texas, write, call, e-mail, whatever, to your state representative expressing your outrage.