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US IN: Editorial: Limitations On Power
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n550/a02.html
Newshawk: Sledhead
Pubdate: Mon, 24 Apr 2000
Source: Indianapolis Star (IN)
Copyright: 2000 Indianapolis Newspapers Inc.
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LIMITATIONS OF POWER
It was, said Rep. Henry Hyde, "a throwback to the old Soviet system,
where justice is the justice of the government, and the citizen
doesn't have a chance."
Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, was referring to a
1984 anti-drug law that allowed federal agents and police wide leeway
to seize property and use the proceeds to finance their budgets.
Hyde sponsored a bill limiting seizures that was passed recently by
Congress, approved by President Clinton and supported by such diverse
groups as the Trial Lawyers Association, the American Civil Liberties
Union and the National Rifle Association.
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