Should make her popular with Republican members of the Judicial Committee.
Asset forfeiture got big under Bush 41 and has been amped up over the years by “conservative” state governors, mayors, and legislatures.
As long as the cops get more money for more paramilitary toys, they are all for it.
Occasionally someone with some actual principles objects and says it should only happen with convictions, but they get ignored and the State looting continues.
Yet another reason why the GOPe doesn’t really represent its base.
A well thought out, literate post based on conservative principles. You are certainly out of place on this thread! ;)
Thanks for the sanity.
Here in Maine, civil asset forfeiture is not used often. There are many hoops for the government to jump through.
In the cases where there is an actual forfeiture, the assets go to the State of Maine’s general fund. Police departments and sheriff’s department do not receive anything, so there is no incentive for them to be aggressive, as is the case in other states.
Indeed it did. President George H W Bush, March 05, 1991 =>
"Asset forfeiture laws allow us to take the ill-gotten gains of drug kingpins and use them to put more cops on the streets and more prosecutors in court.
In the last 5 years alone, the Justice Department shared over half a billion dollars in forfeited assets with State and local law enforcement."
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=2764&year=1991&month=3
I’ll point this out....it was a law passed by the House and Senate....with plenty of Republicans in support of the law. A number of people said at the time....it would be abused. Well...they were right. Imminent Domain is also abused. There’s a problem here....but the question is...instead of going after Lynch, why not rewrite the whole law and really take it down several notches?
Highway robbery under color of law is just another one of those areas where both wings of the uniparty can come to a mutual agreement. Along with amnesty, increasing prison populations, higher taxes, growing deficits and deathcare.