As much as I want Trump to be locked up, it would have to be for one of his multiple criminal indictments. Locking people up for not being able to pay fines is basically recreating debtors prisons and is hugely unfair to poor people.
Sort of. The Supreme Court said you cannot be jailed for not being able to pay a fine, only for willingly not paying a fine that you can afford to pay. However, it is up to a judge’s discretion as to whether a person can afford a fine or not.
In this case, Trump has a lot of properties he can sell to pay a fine.
As much as I want Trump to be locked up, it would have to be for one of his multiple criminal indictments. Locking people up for not being able to pay fines is basically recreating debtors prisons and is hugely unfair to poor people.
That’s already the case for everyone else, let’s make it apply to the biggest piece of garbage in the world.
Sort of. The Supreme Court said you cannot be jailed for not being able to pay a fine, only for willingly not paying a fine that you can afford to pay. However, it is up to a judge’s discretion as to whether a person can afford a fine or not.
In this case, Trump has a lot of properties he can sell to pay a fine.