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Congress Working to Defund AG Sessions’ Asset Forfeiture Initiative

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In a puzzling move, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced last month that the Department of Justice would be ramping up asset forfeiture.

Sessions, for his part, is focused on the asset forfeiture of “criminal gangs” and “drug traffickers.” Being in a gang or being a drug trafficker, however, does not render one devoid of Constitutional rights, and in this, I think Sessions is misguided. We can’t suspend due process for gangs and traffickers without it affecting, as asset forfeiture so often does, non-criminal Americans. Read more here.