States Can’t Use Excessive Fines in violation of Bill of Rights

In her first written opinion since a health scare, Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that the state of indiana’s violated the bill of rights ban against secessive fines when it took a drug dealers car after he sold $400.00 worth of drugs to a cop.

The Indiana individual owned a land rover when he sold the drugs to an undercover cop.

Indiana forfeiture laws allowed the state to seize the vehicle and sell it as proceeds from illegal activity.