Tag: Civil asset forfeiture law
Police say seizing property without trial helps keep crime down. A...
Civil asset forfeiture laws, which allow police to seize property without trial, are frequently justified as tools to seize millions from kingpins. A new study reveals the median amount taken is as low as $369 in some states.
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The axis of evil suffers a big loss
After Viktor Orban's landslide loss in Hungary, will Trump and even Putin be next in line for their political comeuppance?
3D-printed homes, an abandoned $590,000 deposit, the FBI: What really happened in this small...
Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished.
The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...
How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.
UN experts demand halt to arms transfers as Israel’s Lebanon strikes intensify and Senate...
Human rights investigators warn attacks undermine international law while U.S. lawmakers reject another attempt to curb expanding regional conflict.
The winner at the DNC’s latest meeting? Israel, ethnic cleansing and genocide
Why did pro-Israel groups voice so much pleasure and praise—not only for the sidelining of pro-human-rights resolutions but also for the process that sidelined them?