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  02/20/19
good. fuck civil forfeiture.
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Hairraiser smoky puppy headpube
  02/21/19
seems like they got this one right. good job scotus
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Wtf I love RBG now?
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that boat sailed a long time ago. i wonder why thomas thinks...
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I know it sailed but it's still utter nonsense
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Date: February 20th, 2019 2:25 PM
Author: Hairraiser smoky puppy headpube

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna973571

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Date: February 20th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: Laughsome office mediation

good. fuck civil forfeiture.

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Date: February 20th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: Hairraiser smoky puppy headpube
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Limiting excessive fines, Supreme Court rules against seizing a drug seller's luxury SUV

The decision is a victory for an Indiana man whose Land Rover was taken away after he pleaded guilty to selling heroin to undercover officers.

Tyson Timbs holds a photo of his vehicle seized after a drug arrest.Institute for Justice

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Feb. 20, 2019, 11:58 AM ET

By Pete Williams

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to punishments imposed by the states as well as by the federal government.

The decision, announced in court and written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was a victory for an Indiana man, Tyson Timbs, whose expensive Land Rover sport utility vehicle was confiscated after he pleaded guilty to selling heroin to undercover police officers.

Although the Eighth Amendment bans excessive fines, the Supreme Court had never before explicitly said that it applies to the states. The Indiana Supreme Court, ruling against Timbs, held that it did not.

Wednesday's ruling removed any lingering doubt.

"The protection against excessive fines guards against abuses of government's punitive or criminal law enforcement authority," Ginsburg wrote, finding that the safeguard "is fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty."

The Eighth Amendment's other two restrictions, forbidding cruel and unusual punishment and banning excessive bail, were previously declared to restrict state as well as federal authority.

When the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, it imposed limits only on the federal government. The Supreme Court has gradually ruled that most of its provisions also apply to the states.

Timbs became addicted to an opioid prescription for persistent foot pain. When that supply ran out, he turned to drug dealers and eventually to heroin. To pay for his addiction, he began dealing heroin and was arrested after twice selling to undercover police officers.

Because the police said he used his vehicle to facilitate the drug deals — a $42,000 Land Rover bought with money he received from his father's life insurance policy — the state instituted a forfeiture lawsuit to take it away.

The trial judge said the punishment of losing his car would be "grossly disproportionate" to the seriousness of his offense given that the value of the Land Rover was more than four times the maximum fine for the drug conviction. But the Indiana Supreme Court reversed the ruling.

Indiana argued that even if the ban on excessive fines applied to the states, the restriction should apply only to fines that a person has to pay, not to the seizure of property used to commit a crime.

"We disagree," the Supreme Court said Wednesday, finding that the right is fundamental and deeply rooted in the justice system.

Ginsburg's opinion traced the guarantee back to as early as 1215. England's Magna Carta required that financial penalties "be proportioned to the wrong." Harsh economic sanctions, she said, can undermine other fundamental rights. "Excessive fines can be used, for example, to retaliate against or chill the speech of political enemies."

In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas called the right to be free of excessive fines "a privilege of American citizenship."

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Date: February 20th, 2019 2:27 PM
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Date: February 20th, 2019 2:27 PM
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Date: February 20th, 2019 2:32 PM
Author: Hairraiser smoky puppy headpube



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Date: February 20th, 2019 8:38 PM
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Date: February 20th, 2019 8:38 PM
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Date: February 20th, 2019 8:44 PM
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Date: February 20th, 2019 8:46 PM
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Date: February 20th, 2019 10:17 PM
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Date: February 20th, 2019 10:17 PM
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Date: February 20th, 2019 10:18 PM
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Date: February 21st, 2019 1:51 AM
Author: Hairraiser smoky puppy headpube



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Date: February 21st, 2019 2:12 AM
Author: Slap-happy quadroon idiot

seems like they got this one right. good job scotus

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Date: February 21st, 2019 4:32 PM
Author: Self-absorbed trailer park pozpig



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Date: February 21st, 2019 6:00 PM
Author: rose genital piercing

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Date: February 22nd, 2019 3:16 PM
Author: Hairraiser smoky puppy headpube



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Date: February 20th, 2019 2:33 PM
Author: offensive sanctuary becky

Wtf I love RBG now?

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Date: February 20th, 2019 2:36 PM
Author: Laughsome office mediation

It was a unanimous verdict, xo Thomas with a different opinion.

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Date: February 21st, 2019 4:45 PM
Author: fluffy trust fund

XO Thomas hates incorporation through the Due Process Clause, always calls for using P&I Clause. And Gorsuch agrees with him, btw

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Date: February 20th, 2019 2:38 PM
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Date: February 20th, 2019 8:38 PM
Author: Hairraiser smoky puppy headpube



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Date: February 20th, 2019 8:39 PM
Author: Irradiated maniacal circlehead

Fuck civil forfeiture but incorporation has always seemed like a total nonsense doctrine.

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Date: February 20th, 2019 8:46 PM
Author: Jet-lagged faggotry dragon

that boat sailed a long time ago. i wonder why thomas thinks opening up a whole pandora’s box of unenumerated rights is necessarily a good ida\ea

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Date: February 20th, 2019 10:16 PM
Author: Irradiated maniacal circlehead

I know it sailed but it's still utter nonsense

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Date: February 20th, 2019 10:19 PM
Author: glittery hot stain

thomas is like rorschach. he's not going to go with flame constitutional jurisprudence out of pure principle even though he knows it's impossible to reseal pandora's box.

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Date: February 20th, 2019 8:43 PM
Author: Mind-boggling lavender den

180000000000

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Date: February 21st, 2019 11:51 AM
Author: Hairraiser smoky puppy headpube



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Date: February 21st, 2019 6:02 PM
Author: Fragrant state

Thomas, J. concurring

Roll on nigga!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4205662&forum_id=2#37822156)