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Tim Scott: “This is basically an issue of liberty, and there is a bipartisan consensus that civil asset forfeiture is an abuse that…”

On the recordJune 27, 2018
This is basically an issue of liberty, and there is a bipartisan consensus that civil asset forfeiture is an abuse that needs to be stopped.
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Scott emphasizes the need to end civil asset forfeiture abuses.

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