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You don’t get say civil asset forfeiture from simply reading the constitution and ruling based on it.

Cases make it to the Supreme Court because the outcome is ambiguous, so the court can’t actually make decisions based on an objective standard. It’s simply not how they operate in this or any other court.

Instead the outcome is decided and various legal justifications are provided by both the justices who agree and those who disagree. You can agree or disagree with the outcome of any case, but there’s a reason the appointment of Supreme Court justices is considered so politically important, it’s a political job.



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