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Title: Senators Push To Defund Jeff Sessions’ Civil Asset Forfeiture Expansion
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Reason
URL Source: https://reason.com/blog/2017/11/08/ ... ress-for-defunding-of-jeff-ses
Published: Nov 9, 2017
Author: C.J. Ciaramella
Post Date: 2017-11-09 05:24:09 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 797
Comments: 13
A bipartisan group of senators wants to defund Attorney General Jeff Sessions' expansion of the Justice Department's civil asset forfeiture program, following similar efforts by libertarian-leaning and progressive members of the House earlier this year. Sessions announced in July that he was scrapping a 2015 directive by former Attorney General Eric Holder that severely curtailed when federal authorities could "adopt" asset forfeiture cases from local and state authorities. Such adoptions, civil rights group said, allowed local police to skirt stricter state forfeiture laws by taking their cases to federal court. In September, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed several amendments to a large appropriations bill that would prohibit the Justice Department from using any funds to enact Sessions' directive, essentially using Congress' power of the purse to block it from going into effect. In a letter to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), one of the lawmakers hammering out the difference between the House and Senate versions of the appropriations bill, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Angus King (I-Vt.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) pushed to include at least one of the amendments in the final version. "Adoptive forfeiture and equitable sharing are particularly egregious elements of civil asset forfeiture because they not only violate due process but also attack principles of federalism," the senators wrote. "DOJ's reinstated policy allows state law enforcement officers to circumvent state limitations on civil forfeiture by turning seized property over to federal officials for forfeiture in exchange for up to 80 percent of the proceeds of the property. This perversely incentivizes local law enforcement to confiscate suspect property even where state laws forbid the practice." Shelby's office did not immediately return a request for comment. Asset forfeiture—a practice that allows police to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even when the owner is not charged with a crime—has come under criticism in recent years from lawmakers and advocacy groups across the political spectrum. Police groups and prosecutors, as well as law-and-order conservatives like Sessions, argue it is an essential tool to disrupt organized crime by cutting off illicit proceeds. Civil liberties advocates say it leaves far too few protections for property owners and creates perverse profit incentives for law enforcement. A Reason investigation earlier this year showed asset forfeiture in Chicago primarily hit the city's poor, minority neighborhoods. An investigation by the Nevada Policy Research Institute in Las Vegas had similar findings. Photo Credit: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom C.J. Ciaramella is a criminal justice reporter at Reason. The House passed amendments this fall blocking Jeff Sessions' asset forfeiture directive. Now senators want to make it stick
Sen. Mike Lee is one of the lawmakers pushing to defund Jeff Sessions' asset forfeiture expansion // Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
That's why I won't register LIBERALterian... the filthy scumbags are too similar and have many same platform ideals as the progressive snowflakes. Rand Paul is wise to stay clear of the Paultard party. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Asset forfeiture—a practice that allows police to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even when the owner is not charged with a crime.... Yeah - assholes like you cheer when the thugs steal from the innocent. Police Can Seize And Sell Assets Even When The Owner Broke No Law It's always nice watching you deflect from the point I made... how your AGENDA and Commie Sanders AGENDA are so similar. Not exact... but close enough. lol
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Just can't stop lying, can you coward? In a letter to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), one of the lawmakers hammering out the difference between the House and Senate versions of the appropriations bill, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Angus King (I-Vt.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) pushed to include at least one of the amendments in the final version. Beautiful. I am learning a lot about corrupt minds hiding themselves under cover of anti-Communism etc ... It is like watching a trapped live Pthirus pubis under magnifying glass. You can poke it and it moves!
Just can't stop lying, can you coward? They are not lying, they are only emitting noises typical to their species (that mimic human voice). They try to protect their feeding niche.
Correction: Civil Asset forfeiture—a centuries old legal practice that allows police to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even when the owner is not charged with a crime.... As opposed to Criminal Asset forfeiture—a centuries old legal practice that allows police to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity when the owner is charged with a crime....
More socialist and LIBERALterian working hand in hand. All the posters that could stick up for DECKTARD... it's the sites self proclaimed libtard. He's obviously on your dick. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I am not familiar with your homosexual slang. Could you explain me the meaning of this idiom?
Ask your pal, Meguro.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I don't know any Meguro, as I said I am not a member of your community.
Grand Island should do himself a favor and just come out of the closet already. His latent, repressed homosexuality is making him insane. Assett seizures are nothing less than legalized stealing by the state. Are we America,or are we Nazi Germany or the USSR? In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
libertarian-leaning and progressive
#2. To: GrandIsland (#1)
the filthy scumbags
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
(Edited)
#4. To: GrandIsland (#3)
how your AGENDA and Commie Sanders AGENDA are so similar
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Deckard, Gatlin, misterwhite, GrandIsland (#3)
(Edited)
GrandIsland: It's always nice watching you deflect from the point I made... how your AGENDA and Commie Sanders AGENDA are so similar. Not exact... but close enough. lol
#6. To: Deckard (#4)
"how your AGENDA and Commie Sanders AGENDA are so similar"
#7. To: Deckard (#2)
(Edited)
Asset forfeiture—a practice that allows police to seize property su su su suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even when the owner is not ch charged with a crime....
#8. To: A Pole (#6)
#9. To: GrandIsland (#8)
He's obviously on your dick
#10. To: A Pole (#9)
#11. To: GrandIsland (#10)
Ask your pal, Meguro.
#12. To: A Pole (#9)
I am not familiar with your homosexual slang.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#13. To: Deckard (#0)
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