Posted on 07/27/2017 6:31:53 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recent announcement of a new Justice Department directive concerning civil asset forfeiture was panned by critics on the left and right, and a new Morning Consult/POLITICO survey shows most Americans aren’t receptive to it either — regardless of their political persuasion.
59 percent of registered voters surveyed said they opposed the new policy, which expands law enforcement agencies’ rights to seize money and property from people even if they haven’t been charged with a crime. Thirty-seven percent said they were strongly against the proposal, while a quarter of voters were in favor of it.
Fifty-seven percent of Americans said they thought it was a bad idea to allow law enforcement agencies to keep as much as 80 percent of the funds they seize, and 55 percent said the new directive would do more harm than good.
(Excerpt) Read more at morningconsult.com ...
This unconstitutional practice has been going on for quite a while now. George HW 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.
https://bush41library.tamu.edu/archives/public-papers/2764
When Sessions came up with that, he had his head in the same place he had it when he recused himself.
RE:”Sessions is pushing his own agenda. Trump never proposed any of this.”
Does Trump support this?
A lot of whores depend on the drug war for a living. I'd say that explains a fair chunk of those 25%.
Asset Forfeiture without a conviction is theft under the color of law. In a perfect world every government employee who has engaged in this practice and convicted for doing so should be put against a wall and shot.
Sessions must go and this policy burned. It is patently illegal, wrong, unethical, immoral, and definitely a sin by any definition. There is nothing in this law to prevent seizure or your property and assets and mine. Fire the AH NOW! He is not an honest broker.
Bundy all over again?
This is aimed at the drug cartels....the big boys....not the little guy.
Everyone thinks that Sessions is the only person involved in this decision. And while he may be the bearer of the news, the in house work was far and wide.
Jeff Sessions is an enemy of the American People.
You wouldn't know that from where it hits.
I agree that is Sessions's intention, and if Sessions himself were in charge of the police in each case, and prosecuted all the cases personally, then it would at least do some damage to organized crime.
However, it is unconstitutional and invites abuse by corrupt LEOs and prosecutors. Furthermore, even if the authorities charge you and you are found innocent, and you actually get your assets back, having them confiscated for so long is disastrous.
IOW, the Deep State, with Sessions as its mouthpiece.
Jeff Sessions is not known to suggest or support unlawful legislation. I stand with him.
Jeff Sessions is not known to suggest or support unlawful legislation. I stand with him.
Sessions denied =>
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Senate panel advances measure to protect medical marijuana states
BY LYDIA WHEELER - 07/27/17 04:38 PM EDT
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The amendment passed despite a letter Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent in May asking House and Senate leadership not to block DOJ from using funds to enforce federal marijuana laws.
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