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Eric Boehm @EricBoehm87
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Gotta love Gorsuch just straight-up telling the Indiana Solicitor General that he wasted his time coming to DC today

supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…
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And then Breyer starts literally mocking the government's defense of civil asset forfeiture
Civil asset forfeiture is such a farce that it took Stephen Breyer no more than a single transcript page to twist the government's lawyer into arguing that speeding tickets could be grounds for forfeiture lololololol
Here's more on why this exchange (from Breyer, who doesn't exactly have a history of favoring limited government) matters

reason.com/blog/2018/11/2…
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Off to #SCOTUS, where we have arguments in Timbs v. Indiana at 10a over the “excessive fines” clause of the Eighth Amendment and whether its prohibition should apply—or be incorporated—against the states. It’s a case, in part, about asset forfeiture, and has drawn much interest.
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