Jason Snead is executive director of the Honest Elections Project. He is a former senior policy analyst in The Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
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On Thursday, forfeiture-reform advocates gained a new ally when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced his “Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act” or “FAIR Act,” which takes… Read More
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On the back of most every baseball ticket is boilerplate language. If you attend a game, you agree to comply with rules, you recognize you… Read More
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The growing national chorus in favor of civil asset forfeiture reform gained new allies in the halls of Congress last week. Denouncing civil forfeiture as… Read More
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In January, 21-year-old Sylvia Solano slammed her 2003 BMW into a brick wall. By the time cops arrived, she and her passenger—both uninjured—were sitting atop… Read More
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Five years after scandal rocked Minnesota’s law enforcement community, the state government has finally reformed the state’s lax, abuse-prone civil asset forfeiture laws. Unlike some… Read More
It was highway robbery, but they called it civil asset forfeiture. On the last day of his 2,400-mile drive to start a new life on… Read More
Seattle has earned the dubious honor of being the first city to cap the number of drivers that rideshare services such as Uber may keep… Read More
Civil forfeiture has gained prominence as a tool to combat the drug trade; however, its targets can be as mundane as motorists or as industrious… Read More
