Trump signs executive orders to end cashless bail in D.C. and ban flag burning

Understanding cashless bail

Understanding cashless bail amid Trump's calls for its elimination 02:29

Washington — President Trump connected Monday signed an enforcement bid to propulsion Washington, D.C., and different localities to extremity cashless bail for arrested suspects, threatening to withhold national backing from cities that neglect to extremity the program. It's the latest determination successful the president's federal crackdown connected crime. 

Mr. Trump besides signed an bid directing the Justice Department to analyse instances of emblem burning, though the Supreme Court successful 1989 ruled that the First Amendment protected symbolic speech, including emblem burning. 

The enforcement bid connected cashless bail charges Attorney General Pam Bondi with identifying jurisdictions successful the U.S. that person cashless bail policies, and withholds oregon revokes national grants to those jurisdictions. 

"We're ending it," Mr. Trump said of cashless bail earlier helium signed the enforcement bid successful the Oval Office. "But we're starting by ending it successful D.C., and that we person the close to bash done federalization."

The determination comes arsenic the National Guard and national instrumentality enforcement are dispersed passim the district, patrolling the streets. In the past 11 days, the White House says nary murders person taken spot successful the district. 

D.C. introduced cashless bail successful the 1990s implicit civilian rights concerns, becoming 1 of the archetypal cities successful the state to bash so. 

"That was erstwhile the large transgression successful this state started," Mr. Trump said Monday, speaking of cashless bail. "They termination radical and they get out. Cashless bail, they thought it was discriminatory to marque radical enactment up wealth due to the fact that they conscionable killed 3 radical lying connected the street."

The president besides signed an enforcement bid Monday stating it's the government's nonsubjective to clasp arsenic galore suspects captured successful D.C. successful national custody arsenic possible, and to complaint them with national crimes. The president besides signed an enforcement bid encouraging national instrumentality enforcement agencies to prosecute further unit truthful they tin surge instrumentality enforcement to D.C. 

One of the president's enforcement orders besides directs the defence caput to guarantee that each state's National Guard is resourced, trained, organized and escaped to assistance successful "quelling civilian disturbances," and directs the defence caput to designate a fig of each state's National Guard to beryllium disposable for specified purposes. Mr. Trump has said Chicago could beryllium the adjacent metropolis wherever the national authorities imposes a transgression crackdown. 

"We're acceptable to spell anywhere," the president said, asked astir Chicago. "...We tin spell anyplace connected little than 24 hours' notice."

Cracking down connected emblem burning

The enforcement bid the president signed pushes Bondi to analyse instances of emblem desecration. The medication has been captious of pro-Palestinian protests and anti-immigration crackdown demonstrations that person featured emblem burning.

"And past wherever there's grounds of transgression activity, wherever prosecution wouldn't autumn afoul of the First Amendment, it instructs the Department of Justice to prosecute those who were engaged successful these instances of emblem burning," said Trump unit caput Will Scharf. 

Mr. Trump said helium wants the punishment for emblem burning to beryllium astatine slightest 1 twelvemonth successful person. 

"And what the punishment is going to be, if you pain a flag, you get 1 twelvemonth successful jail, nary aboriginal exits, nary nothing," the president said of what helium hopes punishment for emblem burning volition be.