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UPDATE:
President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending cashless bail on Monday (August 25).
"That was when the big crime in this country started," Trump said as he signed the document via the New York Post.
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President Donald Trump is reportedly expected to sign an executive order ending cashless bail by threatening to revoke federal funding for certain jurisdictions throughout the United States, the New York Post reports.
Attorney General Pam Bondi will give Trump a list of the no-cash-bail jurisdictions, which is expected to target states liberal states and cities, as well as areas with less strict bail policies.
“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,” a White House memo obtained by the New York Post states.
The memo said that re-arresting repeat offenders for new crimes after they were freed without bail was “waste of public resources and obvious threat to public safety,” citing situations in which violent offenders were released only to be charged for separate incidents. Trump had previously called on Congress to make stricter laws on cashless bail in order to keep criminals incarcerated before their trial on August 11.
The memo also acknowledged that the executive order will meet the president's campaign promise to “crack down on the left-wing jurisdictions that refuse to prosecute dangerous criminals and set loose violent felons on cashless bail.”