{"id":175799,"date":"2025-08-26T01:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175799\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:50:09","slug":"hochul-pushes-back-on-trumps-bail-reform-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175799\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul pushes back on Trump&#8217;s bail reform threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new executive order, President Donald Trump threatened Monday to <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/08\/25\/trump-signs-order-to-potentially-withhold-funds-from-states--cities-with--no-cash-bail--policies-as-he-talks-larger-crime-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withhold federal dollars from communities<\/a>,\u00a0including New York, that offer cashless bail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move was met with pushback from New York\u2019s top leaders, and sparked debate on the campaign trail for New York City mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/08\/taking-steps-to-end-cashless-bail-to-protect-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the order<\/a> in the Oval Office Monday morning, the president argued that cashless bail policies are a threat to public safety. \u201cNo cash. Come back in a couple of months. We&#8217;ll give you a trial. You never see the person again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a new executive order signed Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal dollars from communities that offer cashless bail, arguing the policy poses a threat to public safety\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>New York&#8217;s bail reforms, which first went into effect in 2020, aimed to address income disparities in the criminal justice system by eliminating bail for lower-level crimes while still allowing it for more violent offenses, including \u2014\u00a0despite the president\u2019s suggestion to the contrary \u2014\u00a0murder\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>A spokesperson for Gov. Kathy Hochul accused Trump of not understanding how New York\u2019s law works and noted the many modifications that have been made to the reforms in the years since it was initially enacted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The candidates for New York City mayor sparred over the executive order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/articles\/2025\/08\/cashless-bail-is-a-government-backed-crime-spree\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> that accompanied the order, the White House put New York front and center, highlighting a handful of stories where suspects in New York were released without bail and were subsequently accused of committing another crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since going into effect in 2020 in New York, bail reform has been a flashpoint in state politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The policy aimed to address income disparities in the criminal justice system by eliminating bail for lower-level crimes while still allowing it for more violent offenses, including \u2014\u00a0despite the president\u2019s suggestion to the contrary \u2014\u00a0murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans attacked the 2020 policy, and the political backlash has been attributed to helping them secure wins in several elections since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the president argues that cashless bail is a threat to public safety, Ames Grawert, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice,\u00a0said there is little evidence of a connection between the bail reforms and crime rates. He recently published an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/bail-reform-and-public-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis of the impact of cashless bail on public safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems very clear that when we&#8217;ve seen crime trends increase or decrease on the national level, there&#8217;s something else going on. It&#8217;s not about changes to bail reform in a single state or even a handful of states,\u201d Grawert said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, a spokesperson for Gov. Kathy Hochul accused Trump of not understanding how New York\u2019s law works and noted the many modifications that have been made to the reforms in the years since it was initially enacted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York has not eliminated cash bail. His reckless threat to withhold federal funds would only undercut law enforcement and make our communities less safe,\u201d spokesperson Jen Goodman wrote. \u201cThe fact is Governor Hochul changed New York\u2019s bail laws so violent offenders are held accountable, and as a result rearrests are down. New York now has one of the lowest violent crime rates in six decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NYC mayoral candidates respond<\/p>\n<p>On the campaign trail for New York City mayor, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, a proponent of the bail reforms, railed against the president\u2019s executive order.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best way to fight Donald Trump is to do exactly that. It&#8217;s to fight him. It&#8217;s not to cower, it&#8217;s not to collaborate, it\u2019s not to call him,\u201d he said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams, who has repeatedly leaned on Albany to update the bail reforms during his term in Gracie Mansion, used the president\u2019s order as an opportunity to criticize Andrew Cuomo, who, as governor, signed the initial bail reform law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur revolving-door system of dealing with violent offenders must be addressed. I think the former governor made a terrible mistake with how they did bail reform,\u201d Adams said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Cuomo responded by defending the bail reforms and dismissing any notion that Adams is the \u201claw and order\u201d candidate in the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs New York has cash bail for violent offenses, and repeat offender arrests have been decreasing, it\u2019s clear that the drafters of this executive order don\u2019t know the facts about New York&#8217;s law,\u201d Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi wrote. \u201cBut it doesn\u2019t matter as it\u2019s very likely that this order &#8211; like many of this administration&#8217;s EOs &#8211; won\u2019t stand up in court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a new executive order, President Donald Trump threatened Monday to withhold federal dollars from communities,\u00a0including New York,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,41034,13565,17547,7448,7031,51585,405,403,17050,50,5226,5225,5228,17545,43431,5227,80,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284,2058],"class_list":{"0":"post-175799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-latest-local-state-politics-stories","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","12":"tag-app-top-stories","13":"tag-d-c","14":"tag-kevin-frey","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-state","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","23":"tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","24":"tag-nyc","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-usa","33":"tag-vod","34":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115092561970805649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}