Trump signed executive orders to end cashless bail by threatening to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions that use it. The Attorney General will identify those jurisdictions, and the orders aim to increase pretrial detention and push more defendants into federal charges instead of release.
I'll start signing the executive orders. To me this is a very, very big deal. The executive orders has to do with cashless bail. That was when the big crime in this country started and I mean they kill people and they get out. We're ending it.
What this executive order does, it charges your attorney general with identifying jurisdictions all over the country that have cashless bail policies and then it withholds or revokes federal funds and grants that are flowing to those jurisdictions to ensure that we're only supporting the people who have reasonable common sen policies around crimes in addition to the measures that we're taking that are quite similar to what we're doing around the country. In D.C. in particular the objective is holding as many criminal defendants in federal custody and subjecting them to federal charges as possible. That means that they'll be held pretrial in federal jail as opposed to just being cut back out on the streets due to a cashless bail policy.