Entries by Sebastian Rucci

Civil Asset Forfeiture: Where Due Process Goes to Die

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Police can take your money or property and keep it, even if no charges are filed. Clarence Thomas is famously taciturn on the bench. But his few words carry a great deal of weight. TOP STORIES Nikki Haley’s Sin Isn’t Racism The Hard Realities Facing Ron DeSantis Maine Secretary of State Rules Trump Is Disqualified […]

Justice Thomas Defends Victims of Policing for Profit

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Civil asset forfeiture is arbitrary and unfair, and it gives law enforcement the wrong incentives. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is well known for staying silent during oral arguments, but his written statement in response to Monday’s denial of certiorari in Leonard v. Texas posed a question that was heard loud and clear throughout the […]

Distracted media missed the asset forfeiture issue

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Apparently the President of the United States is now in the business of threatening political careers. After being told by a Texas sheriff about a state senator who had introduced a bill to require convictions before seizing assets from criminals, the president interjected, “Can you believe that? Who is the state senator? Do you want […]

Good and bad news on civil asset forfeiture

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Good and bad news on civil asset forfeiture Saraland, Ala., police show off bundles of cash seized in an April 2008 traffic stop on Interstate 65. Saraland, Ala., police show off bundles of cash seized in an April 2008 traffic stop on Interstate 65. Author By ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER | Orange County Register January 5, […]

Senate bill aims to rein in IRS on asset forfeitures

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Controversial civil forfeiture program back in action

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In 2012, Alda Gentile, her son and baby grandson were driving from Florida to New York when police stopped her. Gentile, who’d been working as a limo driver in New York, had wanted to scope out condos in Florida. She’d had taken more than $11,500 in cash with her in case they spotted something. But […]