Earlier this month, President Donald J. Trump set the record straight on a controversial policy within his native state, announcing a bail reform-charged federal bill to be penned by upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik.
“Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” Trump said in an Aug. 11th White House press conference, acknowledging “America-first law and order” as an utmost priority.
Trump is confident a bill can reverse the tides, so long as Republicans in Congress and the Senate stand by his side.
“I’m going to have to get the Republicans to vote,” he said, “because the Democrats are weak on crime… they don’t know why. They want it to stop because they get mugged too.”
As the House Republican Leadership Chairwoman, Stefanik showed her support of Trump’s blitz on cashless bail in an official statement: “Just like DC, New York’s failed cashless bail law fuels devastating crime that harms law-abiding families and emboldens violent criminals.”
Under Gov. Kathy Hochul, “dangerous repeat offenders are released back onto our streets within hours free to commit more crimes and terrorize innocent victims,” Stefanik added.
“We must allow our brave police, county sheriffs, and prosecutors to do their jobs.”
Trump’s declaration of Empire State intervention came in the wake of his having taken hold of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. If New York continues to drag their feet, the Commander-in-Chief reckons it is high time his administration first-hand command said bail-involved tomfoolery to cease with a swift and concrete federal smackdown.
According to Spectrum Local News, Illinois is a model Trump can point to on the New York front. Through the SAFE-T Act, passed in 2021 and implemented in 2023, they became the first state to eliminate the option for defendants to pay money to leave jail while awaiting trial.
Said Trump: “I mean, bad politicians started” Chicago and New York’s dire need for bail reform. As far as he and those in lockstep are concerned, changing an abhorrent statute from the top-down would reverse troubles that started stateside.
He considers appointees such as Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche candidates to lift New York’s bail policy out of the woods when he says “lift.”
Meanwhile, in D.C., a mass crackdown on youth crime is in full force.
As reported by Yahoo, Washington’s top federal prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, contends that Congress should be permitted to charge a higher degree of juveniles as adults.
"I can't arrest them. I can't prosecute them. They go to family court and they get to do yoga, and arts and crafts.”
“Enough,” Pirro added. “It changes today.”