RBG, Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines applies to the states, INDIANA!

It's pretty clear she was working HARD from home!!!

Her opinions are often masterpieces on three counts, logic, law and English usage. I am a mediocre lawyer. But for five years I lived with a great lawyer who had clerked for the Supremes after graduating from our law school with the highest grades ever by a substantial gap above the previous best. She felt Ginsburg was the greatest lawyer alive, meaning the person best at legal analysis. I get thrilled reading Ginsburg. She is killer bee.

It should be surprising that a state believed the U.S. Constitution didn't apply to them. Instead, our judiciary is so unbalanced that we now fear the outcome of every ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Sen. Whitehouse: There's a 'Crisis of Credibility' at the U.S. Supreme Court

Curtailing these types of seizures will not only strike a victory for freedom, it will also limit the way policing agencies can raise their budgets.

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2014:

"Ferguson’s financial documents depict a city increasingly reliant on fines to fund government operations. In all, fines and forfeitures accounted for 20 percent of the city’s $12.7 million operating revenue in fiscal year 2013, up from about 13 percent in 2011..."

I don't think we've even seen the tip of the iceberg.

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