Trump is dead right to target cashless bail by threatening to withhold federal funds

President Donald Trump is entirely right to push back against progressive cashless-bail “reforms,” even if the feds can’t directly counter the state lawmakers who’ve imposed them.

On Monday, Trump signed an executive order instructing the attorney general to identify “states and local jurisdictions” that have “substantially eliminated cash bail,” with an eye to cutting some federal funds for those areas.

The White House is on solid ground in citing how no-bail laws empower “repeat criminals who mock our justice system by committing crime after crime without consequence,” and it’s beyond fair for Trump to fume over how such jurisdictions “waste” funds and create “a threat to public safety” by cutting loose perps with “pending criminal charges or criminal history.”