He’s going to get one, and it’ll likely be the most luxurious presidential library ever constructed. Okay, maybe not that far, but Trump’s library will be great. It’ll also be besieged by crazy Antifa folks and naked leftists on scooters, as we’ve seen on the Left Coast, but that’s a whole other ordeal which we’ll come to when this building is complete. First, it needs to be built, and that’s run into some legal trouble, to the shock of no one. Everything related to the president gets challenged in court, even the land transfer for this project.
A chunk of downtown Miami was allocated for a possible site for the library. It’s now being hauled up by a local judge who claims this isn’t due to politics, but procedure. Did local officials legally give this land away? is the question before the courts (via Politico):
The move by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz came after a Miami activist alleged that officials at a local college violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted the sizable plot of real estate to the state, which then voted to transfer it to the foundation for President Trumps’ planned library.
“This is not an easy decision,” Mavel said Tuesday when explaining her ruling from the bench.
“This is not a case, at least for this court, rooted in politics,” she added.
The nearly 3-acre property is a developer’s dream and is valued at more than $67 million, according to a 2025 assessment by the Miami-Dade County property appraiser. One real estate expert wagered that the parcel — one of the last undeveloped lots on an iconic stretch of palm tree-lined Biscayne Boulevard — could sell for hundreds of millions of dollars more.
Marvin Dunn, an activist and chronicler of local Black history, filed a lawsuit this month in a Miami-Dade County court against the Board of Trustees for Miami Dade College, a state-run school that owned the property. He alleges that the board violated Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law by not providing sufficient notice for its special meeting on Sept. 23, when it voted to give up the land.
It's Trump and the courts—everything is political.
