Cenk Uygur
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Republicans Ramping Up Civil Asset Forfeiture
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July 22, 2017
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4:27Now PlayingCivil asset forfeiture is about to ramp up bigly. John Iadarola and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Today the Justice Department announced plans to scale back restrictions on civil-asset forfeiture, a practice which essentially permits law enforcement to seize property from citizens on mere suspicion of connection to criminal activity.
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Its a wildly unpopular practice, with even conservative commentatorsdecrying its clear conflicts with the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution, which guard against the arbitrary denial of property rights by the government outside proper legal channels. A particularly egregious example was the 2015 seizure of $16,000 in cash from a 22-year-old black man by Drug Enforcement Administration officials, based on an evidence-less suspicion that the money was sourced from drug dealing. Similarly, a Philadelphia-area couple had their house seized by local law enforcement in 2014 on suspicion that their son may have been involved in the drug trade. Neither were ever even charged with a crime–still, officers were able to bar the family from their home.”*
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Hosts: John Iadarola, Ana Kasparian
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