>>5299666 (pb)
The question before the Court.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1091_5536.pdf
The question presented: Is the Eighth Amendment’s
Excessive Fines Clause an “incorporated” protection applicable to the States under the Fourteenth Amendment’s
Due Process Clause?
Like the Eighth Amendment’s proscriptions of “cruel and unusual punishment” and
“[e]xcessive bail,” the protection against excessive fines
guards against abuses of government’s punitive or criminallaw-enforcement authority. This safeguard, we hold, is
“fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty,” with
“dee[p] root[s] in [our] history and tradition.” McDonald v.
Chicago, 561 U. S. 742, 767 (2010) (internal quotation
marks omitted; emphasis deleted). The Excessive Fines
Clause is therefore incorporated by the Due Process
Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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This was a Civil case. There is a big difference in a Criminal case. We get the Cabal $.