On Monday, President Donald Trump signed a few executive orders aimed at changing the National Criminal Justice System, focusing on the cashless deposit policy and renewing efforts to penalize the flag desecration.
Cashless bail
One order will direct the enforcement of the right in Washington in DC to keep the suspicious in the federal custody of the “fully permissible” according to the law and to effectively terminate the decade of the city’s cash bail. The second order requires the Ministry of Justice to compile a list of jurisdictions across the country that still use the cashless deposit, with the threat of reducing federal financing to push them into harmony.
Trump claimed that the move was necessary to deal with what he described as a growing injustice in democratic cities. “They thought it was discriminatory to earn people to make money because they were just killing three people lying on the street … We were ending,” Trump said, and chose Governor Illinois JB Pritzker and Governor California Gavin Newsom in his notes.
The cash bail, adopted in cities, including New York, Chicago and San Francisco, eliminates the need for defendants to publish money to ensure release before court. Supporters claim that this policy prevents discrimination against low income accused, while critics claim that this allows dangerous perpetrators back on the streets.
Renewed pressure against the burning of the flag
In a separate action, Trump ordered the Ministry of Justice to review cases where the flag burning was to determine whether the protesters could face accusations under laws such as public inconvenience or restless behavior.
“The American flag is the most sacred and valuable symbol of the United States,” the White House said in a statement, calling a desecration “uniquely offensive and provocative.”
Trump has previously proposed sanctions for the burning of the flag, including the time of prison or losing citizenship. However, the US Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that the burning of the flag was protected according to the first amendment as a form of political expression, limiting the ability of administration to criminalize the law.
Undertones
The movements come when Trump doubled in the “hard criminal” agenda before the elections in the middle of next year, which is part of the wider effort to portray Democrats as soft to crime.
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