{"id":26353,"date":"2017-03-19T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26353"},"modified":"2017-03-19T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:14:22","slug":"the-libertarian-republic-rand-paul-reintroduces-fair-act-to-restore-respect-for-the-5th-amendment-in-forfeitures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26353","title":{"rendered":"The Libertarian Republic: Rand Paul Reintroduces \u201cFAIR Act\u201d to Restore Respect for the 5th Amendment [in forfeitures]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Libertarian Republic: <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertarianrepublic.com\/rand-paul-introduces-fair-act-restore-respect-5th-amendment\/\">Rand Paul Reintroduces \u201cFAIR Act\u201d to Restore Respect for the 5th Amendment<\/a> [in forfeitures] <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kentucky conservative Senator Rand Paul reintroduced S. 642, the FAIR (Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration) Act on Wednesday. The intention of the bill is to protect property owners\u2019 rights and restore the Fifth Amendment\u2019s role in civil forfeiture proceedings. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) has introduced companion legislation (H.R. 1555) in the U.S. House of Representatives, read an official statement from his office on Thursday&#8230;.The &#8216;FAIR Act&#8217; has the backing of some major organizations in politics, including Heritage Action, the American Civil Liberties Union, Institute for Justice, FreedomWorks, National Federation of Independent Business, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Drug Policy Alliance, Americans for Tax Reform, and Campaign for Liberty, according to Paul\u2019s statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Libertarian Republic: Rand Paul Reintroduces \u201cFAIR Act\u201d to Restore Respect for the 5th Amendment [in forfeitures] Kentucky conservative Senator Rand Paul reintroduced S. 642, the FAIR (Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration) Act on Wednesday. The intention of the bill is &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26354,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353\/revisions\/26354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}