I will give the lame-duck attorney general, Eric Holder, credit for doing the right thing, though I wish he hadn’t waited six years to do it.  Robert O'Harrow Jr., Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich report in the Washington Post: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without warrants or criminal charges. (snip) Since 2008, thousands of local and state police agencies have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under a civil asset forfeiture program at the Justice Department called Equitable Sharing. The program has enabled local and state police to make seizures and then have them “adopted” by federal agencies, which share in the proceeds. It allowed police departments and drug task forces to keep up to 80 percent of the proceeds of adopted seizures, with the rest going to federal...(Read Full Post)