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2024-03-21 -Land of the Free

Unlikely Ally Ruth Bader Ginsburg Could Save Trump $355M

[Newsmax] Amid former President Donald Trump's scramble to secure bond in the multi-million dollar judgment against him in New York, he might look to the unlikeliest of figures for legal aid from the late, and famously liberal, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Ginsburg delivered the high court's opinion in Timbs v. Indiana on Feb. 20, 2019, in which she laid out how the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states as well as the federal government.

The judge ruled that taking the vehicle was an excessive fine because it was worth four times the penalty and excessive fines are prohibited by the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.

The ruling was upheld by the Court of Appeals, but the Indiana Supreme Court overturned it on the grounds that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines only applies to the federal government and not to the states.

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said that it does, in fact, bind the states as well.

"The Excessive Fines Clause traces its venerable lineage back to at least 1215," Ginsburg wrote. "Magna Carta required that economic sanctions 'be proportioned to the wrong' and 'not be so large as to deprive [an offender] of his livelihood.'"

"For good reason, the protection against excessive fines has been a constant shield throughout Anglo-American history: Exorbitant tolls undermine other constitutional liberties," she wrote. "Excessive fines can be used, for example, to retaliate against or chill the speech of political enemies."

Posted by Bobby 2024-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11148 views ] Top
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#1 A criminal DNC smash and grab heist.

Posted by Angealing B. Hayes4677 2024-03-21 05:08|| 2024-03-21 05:08|| Front Page Top

#2 she wrote. "Excessive fines can be used, for example, to retaliate against or chill the speech of political enemies."

I have to give her credit for this statement even if it was assuming the ‘Right’ was the side she was curtailing.

Posted by Airandee 2024-03-21 06:38|| 2024-03-21 06:38|| Front Page Top

#3 NY will grab it anyway, destroy it, and then give it back in rubble. He will sue, and die long before they settle.

Posted by 49 Pan 2024-03-21 11:03|| 2024-03-21 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 They always go too far. Trudeau froze bank accounts and tripped a run on banks throughout all of Canada. She will seize his property. It will take the city decades to restore from the loss of business confidence.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-03-21 18:40|| 2024-03-21 18:40|| Front Page Top

#5 It will take the city decades to restore from the loss of business confidence.

If at all.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-21 18:47|| 2024-03-21 18:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Destroying real estate values and bankrupting businesses is part of the plan so that the elite urbanites can pay pennies on the dollar and then restore law and older. Call it pre-gentrification value destruction.

Posted by Airandee 2024-03-21 19:19|| 2024-03-21 19:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Judo quote, and quote, and quote, and quote this line.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-03-21 19:49|| 2024-03-21 19:49|| Front Page Top

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