http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/bobby-jindal-on-the-road-again/Content?oid=1252725 Comments On: Bobby Jindal: On the Road Again by Jeremy Alford en-us Copyright 2013 Gambit. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Gambit readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Gambit. vip@gambitweekly.com (Gambit Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Unconstitutional Laws Harming Families in America

The united states constitution and the constitution of every state in the union strictly forbids anyone from creating a new law which again punishes, or adds more punishment on a person for for a crime which they have already served out their time.

That is called Ex Post Facto law, or Retroactive application of law.

The United States Constitution says:

Article I, Section 9,

No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.

In the Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court, Harvard's Professor Laurence H. Tribe has defined a bill of attainder as a legislative act "that inflicts punishment without a trial."

The late Edgar Bodenheimer, professor emeritus at the University of California, identified an ex post facto law as a statute "that prescribes a greater punishment for a crime already committed."

In 2003, the United States Supreme Court made a decision on the Retroactive Application of the Sex Offender Registration Laws.

Even though, as you read above in the United States Constitution, creating Ex Post Facto law is totally forbidden, our good Supreme Court Justices have the latitude to circumvent the Constitution via fancy wording. It ruled that basically, just going in and filling out a registration form 1 time a year is not punishment.
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