Disgusting Asset Forfiture

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(07-18-2017, 04:57 PM)Benton Wrote: I'd say this practice is going to get plenty of support at the federal level. Trump and Sessions have both made it clear: if the government wants your stuff, they're getting your stuff.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-sheriff-asset-forfeiture-texas-234740

From 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/19/donald-trumps-abuse-of-eminent-domain/?utm_term=.ed7523887354


http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-budget-border-wall-land-acquisition-eminent-domain-2017-3

At least she's getting paid.

Raises an interesting point. If Trump thinks he can personally keep cash and luxury items the government seizes the number of seizures will skyrocket.

There was litigation years ago involving a prosecutor in Northern Kentucky, if I recall correctly. The issue was child support. There was some strange KY law about uncollected child support. The law said if it had been unpaid and the prosecutor's office collected it they could keep it - all of it! Not a percentage and the rest to the custodial parent who was owed the money - the prosecutor's office got to keep it all. The peculiar logic was this would save tax dollars and help fund the prosecutors budgets. But this guy claimed the language of the statute was ambiguous and instead of depositing the money into the county coffers for the prosecutor's office, he put it in his own bank account. "The prosecutor can keep the money" is what he argued the law said. And, if I recall correctly, he ended up indeed keeping all the money.

Any body remember that? I can totally see Donny's lawyers building an argument around that.