[RegulatorCountry]

Ex Post Facto refers to criminal law, making something a crime that wasn’t and retroactively enforcing it. Calder v. Bull case of 1798, Justice Chase established four categories of unconstitutional ex post facto laws, applying it solely to criminal cases, not civil cases.

Referring back to the Constitution, there is no such legalistic distinction. You're presuming that these categories exist to the exclusion of any other.

[mnehring]

That is the law that is used as the precedent standard courts will look at. We may not like it, but Calder v. Bull has been used as the standard for defining what qualifies or doesn’t Constitutionally under Ex Post Facto for hundreds, if not thousands of rulings.

[mnehring]

Quick side note, have y’all seen this video of Homeless Activist Ted Hayes on Obama?

http://www.popmodal.com/video/99/Ted-Hayes-Statement-on-Barack-Obama

Pretty powerful.