{"id":219,"date":"2015-04-15T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/04\/15\/bill-action-civil-forfeiture-is-the-new-eminent-domain\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:06:00","slug":"bill-action-civil-forfeiture-is-the-new-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/bill-action-civil-forfeiture-is-the-new-eminent-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Action: Civil Forfeiture is the New Eminent Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week House State Affairs Committee heard testimony from Matt Miller, of the Institute of Justice. He drew comparisons between eminent domain and asset forfeiture.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0compared the government&#8217;s ability to take property from innocent Texans without charging them of a crime with the ability of the government to take property from innocent Texans for a public use under eminent domain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Refreshing our Recollection: The Institute for Justice is the the group of attorneys that represented Kelo, the property owner, in the infamous U.S. Supreme Court case,\u00a0Kelo v. New London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB3171\">HB 3171 by Simpson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week House State Affairs Committee heard testimony from Matt Miller, of the Institute of Justice. He drew comparisons between eminent domain and asset forfeiture.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0compared the government&#8217;s ability to take property from innocent Texans without charging them of a crime with the ability of the government to take property from innocent Texans for a public use under eminent domain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Refreshing our Recollection: The Institute for Justice is the the group of attorneys that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-legislation-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}