Conservatives, including Reagan, saddled us with Civil Asset Forfeiture so Sessions is just being a true-blue conservative.
Despotism comes at you from all directions.
The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984---which probably did most to turn asset forfeiture from
an occasional use that was originally based on ancient British martime law into an ongoing cash cow for local and fed law
enforcement officials---was signed and defended by Ronald Reagan . . . but originated with Mississippi Democratic
Congressman Jamie Whitten in September of that year. Subsequent asset forfeiture laws originated with Republicans
and had Democratic support, but in recent years it's been men and women on the right speaking against forfeiture laws
and their abuses.
But despotism
is remarkably bipartisan.