KELO never committed a crime.
It stuns me that this issue has required a SCOTUS ruling. How the hell didn’t city halls and state capitals not get burned to the ground over this?
You cannot trace cash so therefore the government does not like you having large amounts of cash.
I imagine this decision will have far far reaching effects in the class action arena as well.
This is great news!!
9 - 0: Wow!
The part that bothers me, is that “the taking” seems to be arbitrary, even before there is a verdict of guilty.
I wouldn’t be entirely comfortable with takings, but if it could be proven that a major portion of the payments to purchase the family home, vehicles, RVs, and other perks, were provided by selling drugs or any other violation of serious criminal codes, I could buy into confiscation.
Confiscations should not benefit anyone involved with law enforcement, the judicial system, or another entity that was involve in charges, arrests, or convictions.
That may be repetitive, but I want to make sure there is not an incentive to go after people, just because your department or even yourself will benefit from it.
There is still a vestige of the Fourth Amendment.
How many 9-0 decisions have ever been made by the SCOTUS?
This is a GOOD one!
YEA!!!!
For more links than most of us would have time to read, visit their web page on Timbs v. Indiana.
Posts earlier today had it at 8-0 with speculation about who didn’t vote. What changed?
Good. Now let’s see how many years it takes for all of the road-pirate police agencies across the country to stop robbing people at gunpoint during traffic stops.