They proclaim loudly that they respect the Constitution. Then they pass laws like this, being sure to give it a nice-sounding name, like Civil Asset Forfeiture.
There is no forfeiture in this at all. It’s seizure. This is theft and a violation of the Constitution.
IMO Clarence Thomas is one of the best Justices we’ve ever had - in some ways better than Scalia in faithfulness to the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended. We need four or five more just like him in the Suprme Court to steer our country back to being a Free Constitutional Republic where the Supreme Court does NOT unconstitutionally make national law and where their decisions ARE constitutionally based.
When Justice Thomas speaks one does well to listen!
Good Lord! I pray you reverse this! Amen.
I’m surprised the Supreme Court hasn’t already struck this down. It seems like one of those issues where the conservatives, like Thomas, and ACLU Ginsburg would agree.
God Bless Justice Thomas. He and Alito are the only sane ones left.
Damned straight.
It’s piracy under the rubric of givernment and it’s convoluted moral imperative and a conceit of imprimatur to enforce their deceit...
Hear hear. It’s theft, it’s guilty until proven innocent, it’s rejection of due process, it’s usually unreasonable search and seizure both, it’s deprivation of rights under color of law, and it’s straight up corruption.
In any matter where the underlying controversy is criminal in nature there should be no civil liability without there being a conviction first.
What if they are convicted of a crime say illegal entry into the nation?