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Rashida Tlaib: “If anyone else was doing this, it would be called extortion.”

On the recordDecember 7, 2021
If anyone else was doing this, it would be called extortion.
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib criticizes the practice of civil asset forfeiture as akin to extortion.

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