The need for eminent domain reform grows more urgent with each day the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Kelo v. New London stands, but Governor Pataki’s latest gambit on the issue is the wrong reform at the wrong time. Mr. Pataki has signed a bill that limits use of eminent domain for one of the few purposes that property rights advocates recognize as an acceptable exercise of the power. In effect, Mr. Pataki, with shocking cynicism (pardon the pun), has found a way to turn eminent domain “reform” into the same kind of governmental abuse the Fifth Amendment’s limitation on eminent domain was intended to curtail.