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Commentary: Can Federalism Survive? It’s Up to Congress

November 1, 2019October 31, 2019 Admin

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Under the original Constitution, and even with its subsequent amendments, power was supposed to be distributed between the federal and state and local governments, with the idea that the national government would have the fewest powers to affect local administration except in certain areas.

Commentary: Look to the States – Not SCOTUS – for Real Asset Forfeiture Reform

January 30, 2019January 29, 2019 Admin

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by Tate Fegley There is a case – Timbs v. Indiana – currently before the United States Supreme Court regarding civil asset forfeiture and whether the excessive fines clause of the 8th Amendment also applies to the states due to the 14th Amendment’s incorporation clause. The petitioner is Tyson…