Someone is charged with a crime, arrested, spends a month in jail awaiting trial, is acquitted. Is he entitled to compensation for his time in jail' If instead of spending a month in jail he posts bond, obtained from a bond agent, is he entitled to be reimbursed for the cost' Someone is convicted of a capital crime. After his execution evidence turns up showing that he was innocent. The state cannot give him back his life but his execution also imposed costs on his wife and children who are still around. Does the state owe them compensation' Trump used legislation designed to let the President regulate trade in an emergency, when there might not be time for the legislature to act, to transfer the general authority to set tariffs from Congress, which under the Constitution is in charge of regulation of trade, to himself. There is currently litigation over whether he was entitled to do that. Suppose he loses the case ' not likely but possible. One result would be that the tariffs are...
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