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SCOTUS has upheld this type of travesty as well.
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Yes, the Court has ruled that forfeiture laws are constitutional, but it's not the Court that created them. Complain to Congress.
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The point I was making is that the concept of private property has largely become an illusion.
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Unlike forfeiture laws, the law of eminent domain goes back to the founding of the United States. One may feel (as the dissenters obviously did) that this latest ruling represents an unwarranted extension of states' power to seize private land, but the power itself is nothing new.
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