From Reason Foundation:
This week, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders about pretrial detention, escalating Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., and threatening state and local jurisdictions that have enacted bail reforms. Both orders contradict available evidence and run counter to defendants’ constitutional rights.
Earlier this month, Trump declared a “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., deploying National Guard troops and placing the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under federal oversight. One of his executive orders attempts to build on that federal takeover by directing law enforcement to “work to ensure that arrestees in the District of Columbia are held in Federal custody to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, and…pursue Federal charges and pretrial detention for such arrestees whenever possible…”
Prior to this order, suspects arrested by federal agencies were placed in federal custody, while those arrested by MPD were held locally. Trump’s order also threatens D.C.’s access to federal funding, services, and approvals unless the city changes its policies on pretrial detention. Continue reading >>>
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