[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 28 (Tuesday, March 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H1668-H1669]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          SUPREME COURT RULING

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the Supreme Court ruled it is OK for the 
government to seize the car of an innocent wife, innocent because her 
husband had sex in the car with a prostitute. Watch out Hertz and Avis 
here.
  Mr. Speaker, has the Supreme Court lost their marbles? This ruling is 
tantamount to allowing the government to seize your home, your car, 
your boat, your BVD's, your rubber duckies, even if you had been 
victimized by the action and you are innocent and did nothing wrong. 
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
  Whatever happened to government of the people, by the people, and for 
the people? Now the Supreme Court says, it is government from the 
people. Beam me up again here. It is not the President evidently who 
smoked dope; it is the membership of the Supreme Court who voted for 
this, and it is absolutely evident they inhaled all the way through.
  Congress, do something. The Supreme Court should not set the law in 
America. That is the legislative role.

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