Even while the progressive agenda is foundering nationwide, New York City Democrats are holding course, steering their ship of folly directly toward the rocky shoals of incompetence, waste, and municipal misgovernance.
The latest exhibit of Progressive absurdity was on display in Manhattan Criminal Court, where Venezuelan illegal alien Nolveiro Vera Ordonez was arraigned on a host of theft-related charges.
Under state bail reform laws, of course, Ordonez was slated for immediate release, but knowing that federal ICE agents were waiting to take him into custody, he asked the judge to send him to jail on a small bond.
Judge Rachel Pauley agreed, assigned Ordonez $100 bail, and sparing him — so he thought — from the clutches of the federal officers seeking his arrest.
Ordonez’ plan — cooked up by his city-funded activist defense counsel — was that he could post bail whenever he feels like it and exit Rikers at will.