Judge temporarily blocks transfer of downtown Miami land for Trump’s presidential library. Thoughts?

[Cubus]

A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for Donald Trump’s future presidential library.

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.

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. 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.

A week later, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet voted to transfer the land again, effectively putting the property under the control of the Trump family when they deeded it to the foundation for Trump’s library. The foundation is led by three trustees: Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump’s husband, Michael Boulos, and the president’s attorney James Kiley.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/judge-temporarily-blocks-transfer-of-downtown-miami-land-for-trumps-presidential-library-00608692

[loveslongnails]

I don't understand why a man who doesn't read and endorses banning books should have a federally funded library? He should have a nursery lined with the photos of the teen-age girls he walked in on at his beauty pageants. I might even donate to that.

It's no surprise that DeSatan and the Florida legislature are giving him head over this thing. That's what they always do.

[noohair]

President Trump is a Palm Beach guy. The library should be in Palm Beach.

[abc3643]

I say let Trump have his library. Global warming will eventually wash it away.

[exitseven]

Like all the other times , this will be reversed on appeal.

[OlderAndWiser]

Just a temporary setback.

[seeyounexttuesday]

I guess there’s no limit to the pettiness of the left.