{"id":1792242,"date":"2023-01-01T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792242"},"modified":"2023-01-01T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T16:05:06","slug":"illinois-supreme-court-puts-controversial-law-eliminating-cash-bail-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-supreme-court-puts-controversial-law-eliminating-cash-bail-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Supreme Court Puts Controversial Law Eliminating Cash Bail On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillinois-supreme-court-puts-controversial-law-eliminating-cash-bail-on-hold%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A controversial law was passed by the Illinois Supreme Court that would remove cash bail from certain crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The SAFE-T Act (Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act) was set to take effect at 12:01 am on New Year\u2019s Day, but late Saturday afternoon the court ordered the stay to \u201cmaintain consistent pretrial procedures\u201d As the justices prepare to hear the case, A Kankakee County judge ruled cashless bail unconstitutional. This means that the policy will not apply in the counties that fought the ban. Attorney General Kwame Rahoul indicated that he would appeal this decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad the SAFE-T Act gone into effect on January 1, 2023, while litigation is pending, the administration of justice in Illinois would have been uneven, thus harming the citizens of the state,\u201d DuPage County State\u2019s Attorney Robert Berlin and Kane County State\u2019s Attorney Jaime Mosser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/supreme-court-halt-safe-t-act\/\">said<\/a> In a joint declaration.<\/p>\n<p>The counties filed an urgent motion Friday afternoon to suspend law until resolution of ongoing litigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly the Supreme Court\u2019s final decision on the merits will be binding on all Illinois courts,\u201d Raoul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/supreme-court-halt-safe-t-act\/\">said<\/a> In a statement \u201cIt is important to note that the order issued today by the court is not a decision on the merits of the constitutionality of the SAFE-T Act, and I appreciate the court\u2019s interest in expediting the appeal. We look forward to mounting a robust defense of the constitutionality of the law and ensuring that it goes into effect across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The appeal has yet to be heard by the high court.<\/p>\n<p>Elgie R. Sims Jr., Democratic state senator, was the bill&#8217;s sponsor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/prosecutor-rips-democrat-kim-foxx-in-scathing-resignation-letter-zero-confidence-in-leadership\">said<\/a> It is a way to. \u201cfundamentally change\u201d The criminal justice system of Illinois is described as \u201ca big, bold, complex, transformational agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/heres-what-to-know-about-illinois-safe-t-act-and-the-new-changes-coming\/3011535\/\">According<\/a> The SAFE-T Act, which was authored by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, emerged following George Floyd&#8217;s death in the custody Minneapolis police officers in May 2020. It contained reforms to law-enforcement training, accountability, as well the statewide elimination monetary bail.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and Conservatives both have condemned the law, citing risks of potentially releasing dangerous criminals into communities. GOP state senator John Curran stated that Republicans were being \u201cfrozen out of the process\u201d and weren\u2019t \u201callowed an opportunity to participate\u201d Make revisions.<\/p>\n<p>Leftist Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx, one of many \u201creform-minded\u201d With the support of political actions committees, prosecutors were elected <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/politics\/2020\/2\/20\/21146269\/george-soros-kim-foxx-bill-conway-states-attorney\">funded<\/a> George Soros helped to create the law. She has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/politics\/ct-kim-foxx-hiring-2022-safet-act-20221025-znhd4fax5rb7bnqfb4s6howiju-story.html\">accused<\/a> Other prosecutors opposed to it taking part in \u201ca misinformation campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Supreme Court put a controversial law that would eliminate cash bail for some crimes on hold. The SAFE-T Act (Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act) was set to take effect at 12:01 am on New Year\u2019s Day, but late Saturday afternoon the court ordered the stay to \u201cmaintain consistent pretrial procedures\u201d while the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":1792245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4550,4119,4803,4733,6202,11793,4920,6413,6547,4730,6195],"class_list":["post-1792242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bail","tag-cash","tag-controversial","tag-court","tag-daily","tag-eliminating","tag-hold","tag-illinois","tag-law","tag-supreme","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}