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In general, if state laws are unconstitutional, it’s for the judiciary to declare them such, and not for Congress to overrule them in statute.
by eynsham 4y ago
In general, if state laws are unconstitutional, it’s for the judiciary to declare them such, and not for Congress to overrule them in statute.
- klardotsh 4y agoWhile that may well be true in principle, I'd argue the state having free reign to disappear folks' money and belongings for - theoretically - just about any reason or no reason under the guise of "probable cause", without consequences or any path to correcting the issue, is a critical enough problem that (1) it should be explicitly outlawed even at the cost of perhaps some redundancy with the Constitution, and (2) it should have been solved years ago - how am I still hearing about this in 2023 when I've known about this concept since high school over a decade ago?!