And on the actually-important-people side of the table, we simultaneously have a cottage industry of ‘Regulatory Takings’ litigation to the effect that things like environmental regulation are a violation of 5th amendment rights against seizure of property without due compensation…
The fact that civil asset forfeiture hasn’t received an utterly brutal 5th amendment smackdown whenever it rears its head suggests rather a lot about who it is usually used against, and the lawyers they generally don’t have (in addition to ‘Drugs!’ being one of the backdoor passwords to the constitution, naturally).
