Jeff Sessions is a huge fan of civil asset forfeiture...

[SHRED]

...and all the corrupt incentives it creates.

Trump Accidentally Makes Support of Civil Asset Forfeiture Administration Policy

http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/trump-accidentally-makes-support-civil-asset-forfeiture-administration-policy

For all those Libertarians who thought Dump was the best choice.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He is a child, who hates marijuana and all the yucky hippies that smoke it.

[Calculating]

2. Sessions is an old dinosaur

The 50's called, and they want their social viewpoints back.

[cloudbase]

3. So was Loretta Lynch. n/t

[gopiscrap]

4. any fucking pig or

law enforcement agency is in favor of asset forfeiture

[lostnfound]

5. Is there any way to use this against corrupt banksters?

What assets do they use in commission of their crimes?

[anarch]

6. old-school, southern good ol' boy

Come now, this is a lucrative revenue stream for "law enforcement" agencies!

"Rights"?? The only people who have any "rights" are those who are better armed and more capable of defending themselves than those others who would take their shit.

[DefenseLawyer]

7. I have little doubt that he will reinstate the "Ashcroft Memo"

Which was an instruction from John Ashcroft to all United States Attorneys that in federal criminal cases they were to always file every possible charge and in every case (other than informants) to seek the maximum sentence.

[dalton99a]

8. Excellent point.