NSFW Archived RBG Puts Out Opinion in Supreme Court Meeting Today (scotusblog.com)
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NSFW Archived RBG Puts Out Opinion in Supreme Court Meeting Today (scotusblog.com)
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Specifica Paragraph Timbs asked the Supreme Court to weigh in, and today the justices held that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines does indeed apply to the states. In an opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court seemed to regard the basic question before it as an easy one. The justices explained that the “historical and logical case for concluding that” the ban on excessive fines applies to the states through the 14th Amendment – which bars states from depriving anyone “of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” – is “overwhelming.”