Trump Will End Cashless Bail by Executive Order

Well, that is his hope. I expect leftwing know-nothing DEI Biden judges will block him.

The order won't ban cashless bail directly. It will require states to end the practice, or give up federal funding.

President Trump is expected to sign the executive order Monday, marking one of his most aggressive steps yet against cashless bail policies. Attorney General Pam Bondi will deliver Trump a list of jurisdictions with no-cash-bail laws, potentially including New York, Washington, DC, and other left-leaning localities that have weakened pretrial detention requirements.

The White House memo on the executive action was blunt: "Cashless bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced." The memo further described re-arresting repeat offenders freed without bail as both "a waste of public resources and obvious threat to public safety."

New York has been at the center of the debate since it scrapped cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felonies in 2019. Critics point to cases such as two convicted killers recently released without bond after being arrested for drug dealing, or a suspected Tren de Aragua gang member freed on attempted homicide charges who was later caught in a drug bust -- only to be let loose again. One prolific city pickpocket has been arrested 45 times since 2024 but continues to cycle through the system.

The White House also cited a California study that found crime spiked by 163% in Yolo County after a "zero bail" policy was implemented. Federal officials argue that local experiments with bail reform have fueled crime and endangered communities.

Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani's Democrat Party is headed in the opposite direction. Mamdani wants to straight-up legalize prostitution, citing the legalization of drugs as a positive precedent to be emulated.

And that's not all -- Mamdani wants to end all charges for misdemeanors, too.

Democratic mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and his comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America want to wipe out the enforcement of all misdemeanor offenses, The Post has learned.

In its most recent platform, the group blasts policing and detention as "instruments of class war" designed to "guarantee the domination of the working class" -- and demands an end what it calls "the criminalization of working-class survival."

"For all of the working class to achieve collective liberation we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state -- from prisons and police themselves, to their manifestations in all forms throughout society," according to the national party's latest platform, adopted in 2021.

On the campaign trail, Mamdani has repeatedly called for police to stop focusing on what he's referred to as "non serious crimes."

"Police have a critical role to play but right now we're relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net, which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs," he said in a campaign video posted to X Wednesday.

Bonus: "This is how you move up in the polls!" Mamdani showed what a guy's guy bro he is by completely failing to bench press a single plate.

He's being assisted on both attempts so much that he's not doing bench presses, his spotter is doing barbell rows.

posted by Ace at 12:22 PM

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