Asset Forfeiture
Many organizations, from Institute for Justice to Reason and Cato, have crusaded for the elimination or limiting of the practice of asset forfeiture. Property can be confiscated for crimes where…
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Asset Forfeiture – Again
As a result of a conversation I recently had with an Assemblyman, I’ve decided to clarify my view on Asset Forfeiture. When a person is arrested on drug charges, or…
Andrew Sullivan on Trump and Tyranny: A Response
…trying to promote a bill against asset forfeiture in California. We get Republican resistance, partly because the police union action committee is well funded, but on emotional grounds many of…
A Response to Philip Hamburger on the “Administrative Threat”
…same rights, as I pointed out in a previous post, there is no ‘innocent until proven guilty’ at civil law, as those involved in asset forfeiture issues can attest. The…
The Parallel Structures of Criminal and Civil Law, and the Hole in the Bill of Rights
…do. One notorious area where this shows up is that of so called asset forfeiture, where if one is accused of harboring drugs on one’s property, and is then found…