The bully threatened the wrong people

The judge in the insurrectionist's trial, for trying to use fraud and force to overturn the 2020 election, gave him release conditions which included not threatening witnesses. Since then, he has threatened witnesses several times.

Robert Reich says, and I agree, that he should be jailed now for this.

I must take issue with one of his points that may mislead readers. If indeed 400,000 defendants in the US are in jail pending trial because they "didn't meet a condition of their release" — and I take Reich's word for that, it doesn't imply what it sounds like. For many of them, this had nothing to do with their doing anything wrong — they simply did not have money to make bail.

There is a movement now to put an end to keeping defendants in jail simply because they are poor.