https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/timbs-v-indiana-state-forfeiture-can-violate-excessive-fines-clause/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:09:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/timbs-v-indiana-state-forfeiture-can-violate-excessive-fines-clause/comment-page-1/#comment-352989 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:40:28 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73021#comment-352989 `If the Privileges and Immunities Clause is resuscitated, it could start moving government back from being the master of the people to its servant. Which would never do. No doubt some Chief Justice will block it by positing that the Sixteenth Amendment overrides the P&A Clause: after all, the power to tax is the power to destroy.

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