President Donald Trump has signed an executive order Monday aimed at eliminating cashless bail for suspects arrested in Washington, D.C., and in other jurisdictions around the nation with similar policies.
NBC News reports:
The executive order on D.C. directs the administration to take certain actions if the city does not change its cashless bail policy, including “federal funding decisions, services, or approvals,” according to the fact sheet. Attorney General Pam Bondi, too, could get involved, though the fact sheet did not detail what actions she might take.
The order on D.C., first reported by Axios, will also ask law enforcement officials to work to ensure that people arrested in the city are taken into federal custody “to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law,” according to a copy of the fact sheet obtained by NBC News.
The executive order aimed at other cities across the nation will direct the administration to find federal funds that could be “suspended or terminated” in jurisdictions that have cashless bail policies, the fact sheet said.
Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office declined to comment on the news.
Trump also signed an order directed at flag burning.
Ahead of the event, Fox News reported:
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday cracking down on suspects who desecrate the American flag, including burning it, by mandating they face prosecution, Fox News Digital exclusively learned.
“The American flag is the most sacred and cherished symbol of the United States of America, and desecrating it is uniquely and inherently offensive and provocative. It is a statement of contempt and hostility toward our Nation, and an act used by groups of foreign nationals calculated to intimidate and threaten violence against Americans,” a fact sheet on the order provided to Fox News Digital reads.
The executive order will direct the attorney general to prosecute those who violate laws “in ways that involve desecrating the flag,” and to pursue litigation that would clarify the scope of the First Amendment as it relates to flag desecration.
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