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SCOTUS just made it harder for a State to seize property from an individual convicted of a crime.

Good news! The Supreme Court of the United States held today that the Constitution's Eighth Amendment's protections against excessive fines imposed by the government applies equally to the States. State governments seem to have a bad habit of unreasonably taking a person's property after they have been convicted of a crime....

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