process by which law enforcement seizes assets
George Leef’s latest Forbes column documents a setback for Oklahomans’ efforts to reform civil-asset forfeiture laws. Last year, State Senator Kyle Loveless introduced a sweeping civil asset forfeiture reform bill.…
In a newsletter that appeared last May I wrote about Lyndon McLellan, the owner of a convenience store in Fairmont, North Carolina who had been victimzed under federal tax and civil asset forfeiture laws.…
6th District Rep. Mark Walker announced yesterday that the U.S. Department of Justice will release approximately $350,000 in asset forfeiture funds to the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office: The funds were frozen in 2012 when…
Hard to believe that —of all things—the U.S. Department of Justice is having “budget issues.” How do we know this? It’s the excuse the department gave Guilford County Sheriff BJ…
Following a ruling in favor of the Richmond County Board of Education, about a dozen other counties are now suing the state for diverting forfeiture funds from the schools to…
The analysis of the Asheville City Council race continues to annoy. This one was black, that one was gay. Does nobody care about ideas anymore? No. What matters is what…
Derek Cohen writes at National Review Online about a damaging blow struck against efforts to rein in harmful civil-asset forfeiture laws. Last Thursday, the Sisyphean boulder of property rights and…
View in your browser. A new report from FeedomWorks gives North Carolina’s asset forfeiture program an A-, the second highest score in the country. In explaining North Carolina’s high score, the report…
A new report from FeedomWorks gives North Carolina’s asset forfeiture program an A-, the second highest score in the country. The report gives two reasons: “The government can only forfeit property if the…
View in your browser. In the first newsletter I wrote for the John Locke Foundation, I welcomed Eric Holder’s announcement that the Department of Justice — the country’s top law…
Lyndon McLellan runs a small convenience store in Fairmont. He’d been running the store and banking his profits for 13 years when the IRS swooped in last year and confiscated…
View in your browser. The 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta Is Around the Corner And to kick off the celebrations, over at the Liberty and Law blog Justin Lyons has…