Thursday, August 25, 2016

Obama's lawyers challenge the money bail system: Can people be kept in jail just because they are poor?



President Obama’s civil rights lawyers are seeking a potentially far-reaching ruling to hold that the Constitution forbids the common practice of keeping people in jail prior to a trial, even for minor offenses, just because they are too poor to pay for bail.

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