On Infighting and Real Fighting

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National Review

On Infighting and Real Fighting

by DANIEL FOSTER August 14, 2017, Issue

 Whose life has gotten better since he first put on a MAGA hat? Not Jeff Sessions, Schrödinger’s attorney general, who has been publicly flogged months after the fact for not launching an investigation into Hillary Clinton that the president told him not to launch. Sessions, an Eagle scout, didn’t even get invited to the Boy Scout Jamboree, and the new White House communications director is dangling his job to the likes of Hugh Hewitt on air. (My sources are telling me Sessions is so distraught, in fact, that the only thing keeping him from going to pieces is his drive to expand legalized theft via civil asset forfeiture and to make sure every medical-marijuana smoker ends up in a full Hannibal Lecter kit at a federal supermax.) Not Chris Christie, who like Sessions submitted early to the endless, existential noogie that rewards loyalty to this president and who is now less popular in the Garden State than people from the Midwest who jokingly pronounce it “Joisey” and expect not to get punched. Christie is currently auditioning — I crap you not — to do mid-morning sports talk radio in the New York market, which I guess beats ambassador to Burundi, but not by much.   

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Jeff Sessions Endorses Theft

21 HOURS AGORon Paul

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently ordered the Justice Department to increase the use of civil asset forfeiture, thus once again endorsing an unconstitutional, authoritarian, and increasingly unpopular policy.

Civil asset forfeiture, which should be called civil asset theft, is the practice of seizing property believed to be involved in a crime. The government keeps the property even if it never convicts, or even charges, the owner of the property.

Police can even use civil asset theft to steal from people whose property was used in criminal activity without the owners’ knowledge. Some have even lost their homes because a renter or houseguest was dealing drugs on the premises behind the owners’ backs.

Civil asset theft is a multi-billion dollar a year moneymaker for all levels of government. Police and prosecutors receive more than their "fair share" of the loot. According to a 2016 study by the Institute for Justice, 43 states allow police and prosecutors to keep at least half of the loot they got from civil asset theft.            https://mises.org/blog/jeff-sessions-endorses-theft