Often divided Supreme Court shows unity in protecting this fundamental right

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Unlike the right to abortion or the power to impose affirmative action, which judges of the past have conjured out of vague provisions of the Constitution, the right to property is clearly protected by the Fifth and 14th Amendments.
49% : In this, it resembles last term's Bruen case on gun rights.
44% : The court observed that although a small minority of states at the time of the 14th Amendment's ratification had deemed delinquent property entirely forfeited by failure to pay taxes, both then and now a clear majority of American jurisdictions required that the taxpayer was entitled to the surplus once the debt was paid.
23% : At least those two justices seem prepared to take a hard look at the harsh civil forfeiture statutes that are often used now instead of taxes to finance law enforcement operations.

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