Governor Signs Bill to Make Illinois First State to Eliminate Cash Bail Despite Steep Opposition
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Pretrial Fairness Act (HB3653) making the Land of Lincoln the first state to eliminate cash bail.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Pretrial Fairness Act (HB3653) making the Land of Lincoln the first state to eliminate cash bail.
DCCC senior adviser Dyjuan Tatro has frequently supported defunding America’s law enforcement, called police racist, espoused anti-capitalist views, called to end cash bail, and urged officials to let criminals out of prison.
Rev. Raphel Warnock, the Democrat nominee running against GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler in Georgia, compared the use of “cash bail” in the criminal justice system to “voter suppression.”
A bail fund that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) promoted on Twitter to assist protesters arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, riots earlier this year has freed a man accused of sexually molesting a child, the Daily Caller News Foundation reports.
Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Tuesday that she would not be able to enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders because she was too busy re-arresting accused criminals set free under the state’s new “zero-dollar bail” policy.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said that “hundreds of thousands” of people are in jail “convicted of nothing” and that he plans to end cash bail policy.
California Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to abolish the bail bond business this week is just the first step in a multi-level decriminalization initiativeCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to abolish the bail bond business this week is just the first step in a multi-level criminal justice reform initiative.