In recent years, state governments have acted to safeguard Americans’ property rights, preventing the taking of private property without due process of law. As we have often discussed in this space, they have been curbing or abolishing the practice of civil forfeiture, by which government takes the property of people who are often never charged with a crime, let alone convicted of one, solely on the basis of suspicion that their money or property is involved in criminal activity.

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