Civil forfeiture is so much broader than any ordinary civilian knows or would want to believe.
The government can take your money and things. And those of your loved ones. All without anyone being convicted of a crime. Taking on the basis of their *accusations*.
Friendly reminder that in a system which is completely indifferent to the use of coercion to induce guilty pleas, a person’s decision plead guilty tells you nothing whatsoever about their guilt or innocence. There may be other indicia of guilt, but the plea itself is meaningless.
@natsfert This is a cynical attempt to show progress toward marijuana policy reform. Moving marijuana to schedule 3 on the CSA does nothing for drug reform. It will only provide cannabis businesses with an opportunity to mirror the pharmaceutical industry.
@natsfert This is a cynical attempt to show progress toward marijuana policy reform. Moving marijuana to schedule 3 on the CSA does nothing for drug reform. It will only provide cannabis businesses with an opportunity to mirror the pharmaceutical industry.
@Oslerguy @RachelBarkow@chrisgeidner@SLandP@PresVischer@VanJones68@JoshuaBHoe@candoclemency Agreed: A significant gap remains between @POTUS’s actions and his ambitious promise to reduce the federal prison population by over 50%. With 157,640 individuals still behind bars, can we reasonably expect a reduction of, say 50,000 (less than a third)?https://t.co/Qbi5SGBHQo
The idea that you would defer in any way, shape, or form to people like this on questions of constitutional law or due process—or that you’d invent immunity defenses out of whole cloth to shield them from meritorious civil rights claims—is just bonkers. /1 https://t.co/PRkeX3e2lr
You’d almost have to be a member of a govt body that’s wildly disproportionately composed of people who used to work for and within the law-enforcement community. Which, as it turns out, precisely describes our judiciary. /end https://t.co/fRezBUCMUC
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@MikoyBass@POTUS Support the removal of marijuana from the controlled substance act and grant commutations to all nonviolent marijuana offenders in federal prison.