Op-Ed: Illinois Supreme Court likely to rule state legislature acted hastily in ending cash bail Jeff Clayton, American Bail Coalition Excerpt from The Center Square – Jan 10, 2023 Two years ago, the Illinois legislature made a bold, politically-motivated move, voting to eliminate monetary bail, with implementation scheduled to takeRead More →
Civil Rights Corps Damaging Criminal Justice System with Meritless Lawsuits The Civil Rights Corps and their cronies are playing a dangerous political game By Jeff Clayton, excerpt from The California Globe Like many jurisdictions across the nation, Los Angeles County has a big problem with its bail system. Scores of defendantsRead More →
Pretrial Roadmap 2023 __________ The issue pertaining to the time-period between arrest and trial in the criminal justice system has long been debated. The stakes could be no higher when balancing the rights of the People, victims of crime, and the safety of communities along with the right to bailRead More →
“Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act” Targets Bail Funds Supported by V.P. Harris For all of the rhetoric we’ve heard about ending cash bail, there are two significant flaws in our national system that have escaped the attention of most policymakers. First, incomplete criminal history information has allowed forRead More →
The Numbers Are In: Legislative Crack-Down on the End Cash Bail Movement in Houston is Reducing Pretrial Crime by Repeat Offenders As crime spiked in Houston, due to bail reform, according to District Attorney Kim Ogg, the once darling of George Soros, Ogg called a friend of hers: Senator JoanRead More →
Six Year Effort to End Cash Bail in California Finally Ends in Resounding Legislative Defeat By ignoring sensible and obvious solutions to the problem within the framework of Article 12 of the California State Constitution’s right to bail, the legislature just kept grasping at potential alternatives to the monetary bailRead More →
PRESS RELEASE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY ATTEMPTING TO SNEAK ZERO REFORM BILL THROUGH IN FINAL HOURS OF LEGISLATIVE SESSION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Franklinville, NJ (August 24, 2022) – After lying dormant for nearly a year, the California Assembly suddenly resurrected Senate Bill 262 on Tuesday and placed the inactive zero bail billRead More →
Study finds that New York Bail Reform Unleashed a Crime Wave in New York: The Victims of the Reforms Were Overwhelmingly African-American and Hispanic The Manhattan Institute recently issued a report that takes to task those who argue that New York Bail Reform worked. As bail reform continued to failRead More →
Eric Holder Bullies His Way to Success in Detroit Bail Reform Case as State and Local Officials Watch the Show The Former Attorney General pulled off a stunt that even we didn’t think was possible: he bullied the judges of the 36th Judicial District Court, which covers Wayne County, toRead More →
Indigent Bail Challenge Rejected By the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit In what may be the final chapter in the indigent bail litigation started by Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in the 2015 case of Varden v. City of Clayton, Alabama, the U.S. Court of AppealsRead More →
