Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Venice and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Professor Salima Snow, where I ask her, what is civil asset

forfeiture?

Professor Salima Snow is a professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia's

David A Clark School of Law.

She's also an elected member of the D.C. Bar Board of Governors and the elected

president of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers. Let's get started.

Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness. I am very excited for this week's

episode and this is an episode that we wanted to talk about for a very long time, but we needed to find the perfect guest to talk about it, and we did. So welcome to this week's episode, Professor Salima Snow. She is the Professor of Law at the University of the District of

Columbia, and focuses on religious profiling, poverty law, and the intersection of poverty,

gender, and access to justice.

And ultimately, the question that we're asking today is,

what is civil asset forfeiture and is it legal government sanctioned theft?

So welcome first, second, I don't know if anyone heard

that you got excited before we started recording,

but now I'm gonna do it to you.

The colors that you are giving us, the smile necklace the texture these pinks these yellows I'm so upset well I'm not actually upset but I wish that people listening to this could see how stunning you are so

Thank you so much for coming to talk to us today. We really appreciate it.

So this is one time I do appreciate being objectified, so thank you. I appreciate that.

I am trying to do this other thing where I don't compliment my guests on their looks because I'm trying to be more professional that sometimes if the look is just too strong I can't help it.

Coming from Jonathan Vanas, I will definitely take it. So, thank you, I appreciate that.

So, interesting that you say theft,

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