TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Sep 8, 2025

U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, and John Cornyn, R-Texas, have introduced bills to end cashless bail policies, which they say allow criminals to reoffend, WSMV reports. The "Ending Cashless Bail in Our Nation’s Capital Act" would ban cashless bail in Washington, D.C., while the "Keep Violent Criminals Off Our Streets Act" would bar certain federal funds from going to states and localities that limit the use of cash bail. Blackburn’s office said the bills are aimed at stopping “soft-on-crime” officials from releasing “countless violent criminals who have demonstrated a clear risk to society back into their communities without bail, which incentivizes and rewards criminal acts.” Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting cashless bail and threatening to revoke federal funding from jurisdictions that use it. Another order directed police in the District of Columbia to charge suspects with federal crimes and hold them in federal custody to avoid cashless bail.