The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “excessive fines” forbids state as well as federal governments from imposing disproportionately severe financial penalties on lawbreakers. The case involved an Indiana man named Tyson Timbs, whose car was seized by means of a legal device called civil forfeiture—and it marks…
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