{"id":1408,"date":"2019-09-11T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T21:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2019-09-11T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T21:49:06","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-civil-asset-forfeiture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-civil-asset-forfeiture\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion. Civil Asset Forfeiture."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Opinion: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinion-files\/opinion\/2019\/kp-0267.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0267 (2019)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who requested the opinion?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corrections Committee Chairman James White<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What questions does the opinion answer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;whether a Texas court would conclude that the Eighth Amendment&#8217;s excessive fines guarantees are incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment&#8217;s Due Process Clause or, alternatively, by its Privileges and Immunities Clause&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;whether\u00b7 Texas courts would recognize article\u00a0I,\u00a0section\u00a013\u00a0of the Texas Constitution &#8220;as a constitutional guarantee that protects Texans from excessive fines.&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;how a court would &#8220;likely interpret a law that mandates the executive branch to enforce a statute accompanied with an excessive fine.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The answers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Q1. Yes. <ul><li>TX Courts would find 8th Amendment excessive fine guarantees  in the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Q2. Yes. <ul><li>This part of the Texas Constitution  protects against excessive fines- there is a loophole. The Court could separate the unconstitutional part of the fine and permit the constitutional portion of the fine.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Q3. Yes.<ul><li>The US Constitution, the US Supreme Court ruling, would be instructive on Texas Courts.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opinion: KP-0267 (2019) Who requested the opinion? Corrections Committee Chairman James White What questions does the opinion answer? &#8220;whether a Texas court would conclude that the Eighth Amendment&#8217;s excessive fines guarantees are incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment&#8217;s Due Process Clause or, alternatively, by its Privileges and Immunities Clause&#8221; &#8220;whether\u00b7 Texas courts would recognize article\u00a0I,\u00a0section\u00a013\u00a0of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}