Earlier today, the House Judiciary Committee passed the FAIR Act on a 26-0 vote. We rarely see such unanimity in this era of partisan polarization! Reason's Jacob Sullum has a helpful summary of how ...
Congress and the Biden administration need carefully to consider whether making political affiliation a crime in this instance would set a dangerous precedent for the future. Legal advocates need to ...
The federal government is waging war on Americans and their bank accounts through the "legal maze" of civil asset forfeiture, a senior attorney at a nonprofit law firm said. "The administrative ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the due process rights of two Alabama women were not violated when they both had to wait over a year for a court hearing to challenge the police seizure of ...
Years after "civil asset forfeiture" became synonymous in many minds with legalized theft, the practice of seizing money and property merely suspected of a connection to a crime remains a boil on the ...
State Reps. Doug Wozniak and Jaime Greene have introduced a plan they say will ensure funds seized through the civil asset forfeiture process are properly reported and spent on improving public safety ...
Alongside the slew of new sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration also has been laying the groundwork to maximize the impact of those sanctions. Just ...
A panel of federal appellate judges unanimously ruled Thursday that Detroit's practice of seizing people's cars for months at a time before giving them a chance to contest the seizure violates vehicle ...
Civil asset forfeiture is not an asset to the American people—it is legalized theft without constitutionally-required due process of law. Thankfully, the practice may finally be curbed. Recently, the ...
Steve Forbes lays out why civil asset forfeiture should be abolished or, at minimum, require what justice has always demanded: conviction first. Civil asset forfeiture—the legal practice of allowing ...
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