5 days ago
They couldn't pay their taxes, so D.C. took it all. Unconstitutionally.
Christina Martin, a senior attorney at the law firm Pacific Legal Foundation, was the lead attorney in the Supreme Court case Tyler v. Hennepin County and is representing Juanita Powell in the constitutional challenge to D.C.'s tax foreclosure law.
Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the government violates the Constitution when it takes property to pay a tax debt and keeps more than what is owed. That landmark decision affirmed the importance of private property rights.
