Cashless bail is effective and humane, but Trump wants to end it

Trump’s dangerous move on bail tries to supersede statehouses (Editorial)

President Donald Trump is lawlessly trying to use the Justice Department to change state bail laws and even threatening to send in the National Guard in a naked attempt to seize power that the U.S. Constitution grants to the states. This is an incredibly dangerous pattern. There is a real debate to be had if cashless bail rules are too lax, but that’s not what Trump is doing. He wants states to bend to his will, even though the president doesn’t…

Trump’s war on ‘cashless bail’ will make the streets less safe - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

The Trump administration’s next target in its recent law-and-order campaign is non-monetary bail. In his executive order, President Donald Trump has demanded that the federal government remove its aid from jurisdictions that substantially eliminate traditional cash bail.

Trump’s cashless bail distortions

By Robert Farley Since announcing the temporary federal takeover of Washington, D.C.’s, law enforcement, president Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized state laws limiting the use of cash bail. But his arguments have strayed from the facts in three key areas: Trump claimed that “every place in the country where you have no cash bail is...

New Mexico wrote bail reform into its Constitution nearly a decade ago. Can Trump reverse it?

The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that requiring people to pay bail to avoid jail before their trials violated the state Constitution. (Photo courtesy of Bernalillo County)In an executive order issued last week, President Donald Trump took aim at states and cities that no longer require people to pay bail to stay out of jail while they await trial.  Specifically, Trump directed his administration to compile a list of any grants and cont…

Cashless bail is effective and humane, but Trump wants to end it

President Trump wants poor people to stay in jail when they are arrested, while still presumed innocent, even if it takes months or years before their cases come to trial.  He didn’t exactly put it that way, of course. But that would be the inevitable consequence of his campaign against cashless bail. Trump announced an executive…