Asset Forfeiture
Five Years Later Supreme Court Decision Still Hasn’t Significantly Limited Asset Forfeiture
Many people believe the Supreme Court “ended asset forfeiture” with its 2019 opinion in Timbs v. Indiana. As we argued at the time, Timbs ended nothing, and follow-up cases bear this out. This underscores an important reality. We can’t rely on federal...
Equitable Sharing: 40 Years of Federal Theft through Civil Asset Forfeiture
I know I shouldn’t be surprised – but it sure seems like every time I research the history behind some of the worst, unconstitutional federal police-state programs – I find a connection to Joe Biden. And that happened yet again last week, when I was...
Chicago Cops Use Asset Forfeiture Funds to Buy Drones “Off the Books”
Asset forfeiture funds help fund the ever-growing national surveillance state. Civil asset forfeiture is a pernicious policy in its own right. It is nothing more than legalized, institutionalized, government-sanctioned theft. Forfeiture laws flip due process on its...
Status Report: Taking on Civil Asset Forfeiture
Civil asset forfeiture is nothing more than legalized, institutionalized, government-sanctioned theft. It is the process by which governments confiscate a person’s property, generally after asserting it was involved in criminal activity or that it was the proceeds...