{"id":18491,"date":"2018-11-29T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18491"},"modified":"2018-11-29T09:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:43:43","slug":"perverse-incentives-ctd-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/29\/perverse-incentives-ctd-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Perverse Incentives, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us with an interest in civil asset forfeiture, the case of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/20\/perverse-incentives-ctd-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Timbs v. Indiana<\/em><\/a> was argued in front of <em><strong>SCOTUS<\/strong><\/em> yesterday, and observers have walked away with a positive impression of the proceedings. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-11-28\/justices-signal-they-will-put-limits-on-state-power-to-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Bloomberg News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, among others:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Supreme Court justices signaled they will curb the power of cities and states to levy fines and seize property, hearing arguments in the case of a man trying to keep his Land Rover after he pleaded guilty to selling drugs. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Justice Brett Kavanaugh said it was &#8220;too late in the day&#8221; to argue that states are exempt from particular parts of the Bill of Rights. Justice Neil Gorsuch said the only question was what exactly the excessive fines clause prohibits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever it in fact is, it applies against the states, right?&#8221; he asked Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher. When Fisher hedged, Gorsuch added, &#8220;Really? Come on, general.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The liberals seemed similarly skeptical of the Indiana case as well. Ilya Somin, who writes about the proceedings in a readable manner <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2018\/11\/28\/todays-supreme-court-oral-argument-in-ti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, sounds convinced that civil asset forfeiture will go down in flaming defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Hurrah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us with an interest in civil asset forfeiture, the case of\u00a0Timbs v. Indiana was argued in front of SCOTUS yesterday, and observers have walked away with a positive impression of the proceedings. From Bloomberg News, among others: Supreme Court justices signaled they will curb the power of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/29\/perverse-incentives-ctd-7\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18492,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions\/18492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}