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The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans a dramatic expansion in the federal government’s ability to seize and keep cryptocurrency, often wrongly-assumed impervious to government confiscation, hoping to broaden the most abusive form of civil forfeiture that property owners currently have little protection from, reports Nick Sibilla for Forbes. Crypto is often wrongly-assumed impervious to government confiscation. The Attorney General wants to raise that $500,000 cap on forfeitures specifically for cryptocurrency and other digital assets, something that the Secretary of the Treasury could choose to adopt without approval from Congress.
Administrative forfeitures accounted for almost 80 percent of all forfeitures conducted by the DOJ and 96 percent of the Treasury Department’s forfeiture activity. The DOJ is also seeking amendments to criminal forfeiture that takes place after a conviction for fraud or manipulation, which would further aid in the crackdown on scammers.
Four emails suggest Trump and his attorneys knowingly made false claims about voter fraud in lawsuits.
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Black women are leading the fight to secure and safeguard voting rights in the U.S. Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues a Washington and Lee University School of Law professor.
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