Good for the Justice Department.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/unconsti...epartment/
Thank goodness Scalia's dead or we'd have gotten another 5-4 ruling in favor of locking them up forever.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/unconsti...epartment/
Quote:Unconstitutional to jail poor who can’t pay bail: US Justice Department
Quote:The federal government has taken a stand on the side of impoverished defendants, arguing in a U.S. appeals case that holding people accused of crimes in jail solely because they cannot afford bail is unconstitutional.
The U.S. Justice Department filed an amicus brief in a Georgia case in which a defendant was jailed for six days because he couldn't afford $160 bail on a misdemeanor charge. "Bail practices that incarcerate indigent individuals before trial solely because of their inability to pay for their release violate the Fourteenth Amendment," the Justice Department said, according to NBC.
Thank goodness Scalia's dead or we'd have gotten another 5-4 ruling in favor of locking them up forever.
