amy: on wednesday, the supreme court unanimously ruled in tyson timbs' favor. writing on behalf of the eight justices, ruth bader ginsburg said -- "the historical and logical case for concluding that the 14th amendment incorporates the excessive fines clause is overwhelming." the american civil liberties union has called civil asset forfeiture a violation of due process that disproportionately targets communities of color. after wednesday's ruling, the aclu tweeted -- "this will help stop state and local authorities from using people in the justice system as their piggy banks." for more, we go to washington, d.c., where we're joined by lisa foster, co-director of fines and fees justitice center. her group along with others, , filed an amicus brief in the supreme court case. lisa foster is a retired judge and served in the justice againstnt to lead excessive fines and fees. lisa foster, welcome to democracy now! why do you lay out the significance of this unanimous decision of the supreme court. >> good morning. it is a pleasure to be here. the supreme court for

not taking measures you know but then i mean that was really is specially from organization for weak timbs who said that's really a bad speech but then i was thinking uh they write i think from their point a few yes because in fact he didn't say anything of concrete but what he did is really. pointing out the principles that no longer silence no longer covering no longer double life no longer of these things and that's something why i would say yes if it was good that he did it in this way briefly if you can we have heard some horror stories from victims in the past few days you are a catholic priest how does it feel now to be associated with an institution that has caused a lot of pain to a lot of these people. you know it's really hard because you know first of all i'm a priest and i want to be. i want to feel this the pain of the victims that's my first thing but we also we have pain and the pope also said that he that so many priests who are doing a good work are really scandalized by that time t. and he acknowledged it and thanked the people the normal people who know they could sense

. >> you'll hear argument this morning in case 17-1091, timbs v. indiana. mr. hottot? wesley hottot: mr. chief justice, may it please the court. the freedom from excessive fines applies to the states, because it is deeply rooted in our nation's history and traditions and fundamental to our scheme of order and liberty. the state of indiana appears not to dispute that straightforward answer to the actual question presented. and for good reason. the freedom from excessive fines easily warrants incorporation alongside the eighth amendment's other protections. this court has said just that, five times over the last 30 years. without addressing the incorporation question directly, the state asks whether the clause applies to the states the same way that it applies to the federal government. but 50 years of incorporation precedent holds that incorporated bill of rights protections apply to the states, the exact same way that they apply to the federal government. there's no reason to adopt the so-called two-track approach at this late stage of the incorporation doctrine, espec

despite the fact that this event on single use plastic our timbs and rwanda companies like this one needn't worry about going out of business anytime soon. it's encouraging to see just how serious some countries are about reducing single use plastic items but some businesses have gone a big step further by eliminating all disposable plastics from their shops our next report takes us to two such establishment one of the netherlands and one in germany . at this shop in berlin. customers bring their own containers the whole idea is none of the goods here are packaged in plastic they're also free trade and organic. the owner christiana zeek was inspired by other stores in germany and elsewhere in europe. she sauces many of the products locally and almost eighty percent of them come in paper or cardboard boxes. and we have this one. even as a child i found plastic weird and as i got older the thought of having nothing to do with it just kept growing on me and i started buying on packaged goods. and that was a great idea. if the retail trade won't take responsibility then ordinary citizens have t

. >> you'll hear argument this morning in case 17-1091, timbs v. indiana. mr. hottot? wesley hottot: mr. chief justice, may it please the court. the freedom from excessive fines applies to the states, because it is deeply rooted in our nation's history and traditions and fundamental to our scheme of order and liberty. the state of indiana appears not to dispute that straightforward answer to the actual question presented. and for good reason.

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have more in their reporting from new york thanks for the update and now live to daniel mccown timbs executive director of the ron paul institute. thanks for coming on to the program now we had what caleb said russia says washington is considering the possibility of military intervention in venezuela while u.s. envoy for venezuela has just announced that it's not on the cards could the trumpet demonstration still be considering a minute she operation in your opinion. well i think they are considering a military operation i think their wings have been clipped slightly by the fact that the limit group. statement sixteenth statement in their recent statement from their meeting yesterday explicitly rejected the idea of military being involved in any kind of military operation against venezuela so i think that makes it slightly difficult however that does not mean as your reporter mentioned that there wouldn't be special forces there wouldn't be the infiltration of of cia troops of covert forces attempting to further destabilize to rest low level guerrilla warfare so you certainly could s