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George Pyle: Supreme Court limits a state’s ability to take your stuff. Just like George Will said it should.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been under the weather lately. So when she came back to work at the Supreme Court of the United States after cancer surgery, they gave her a relatively easy job to do, just to warm up.

Yes, she said Wednesday for a unanimous Supreme Court, it is unconstitutional as all hell for the state of Indiana to have seized the $42,000 Land Rover of a convicted drug dealer, a loss worth 35 times the amount of the fine allowed for the offense of trafficking 2 grams of heroin, as part of the “civil forfeiture” part of his sentence.