What's real funny is, some of the same people who blamed obama for even the most minor of things by a low level flunkie because it was "his administration" are now trying to separate trump from the actions of his statist doucheknuckle appointee
I'm actually open to giving Trump the benefit of the doubt until I see or hear a statement from him on this. Someone above alluded that he has come out in favor, but I just haven't seen anything concrete yet.
I do recall seeing him nod his head some months back when he had some kind of LE roundtable that was televised and some moron Texas sheriff was going off on the need to expand asset forfeiture, so I don't have high hopes of his disagreeing with his AG.
The other thing that is bothersome to me is that Sessions keeps defending this on the federal level, but we know this is not going to be operationally enforced by feds, it will be implemented by local LE, and that's where all the problems really arise. You have your redneck deputies siezing assets because they find a coffee can in someone's back seats, and you have SJW city cops seizing assets because somebody has an NRA sticker on their bumper.
While I'm still against it and still find it unconstitutional on the federal level, I do believe they are targeting drug cartels. On the local level though, too many of these asset forfeiture incidents have targeted getting a new Bearcat for the local constabulary.
While I'm still 100% against pre-conviction forfeiture, I still maintain what I have mentioned before - that assets seized go to whatever the opposite of LE is on the local level, otherwise it's nothing more than an alternate income for the police budget. Also, we need to put laws in place that stop local police from monetarily benefiting through "partnering" with feds in areas where decent politicians have banned asset forfeiture at the local / state level.
