Democratic Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Raphael Warnock has long opposed cash bail, the system that requires people to put up money as essentially collateral to ensure they appear for court dates, even as the Democratic Party didn't put the policy in its platform until 2020.
Opposition to cash bail has become a mainstream position in the Democratic Party this year, as President-elect Joe Biden supported it during the campaign after it did not appear in the 2016 party platform.The 2020 Democratic Platform, in supporting an end to cash bail, says "[p]overty is not a crime, and it should not be treated as one." This reflects language Warnock used in support of a 2018 ordinance passed in Atlanta that allowed people arrested for minor.
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