(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)
Tanya Watkins, a community organizer and executive director of Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation, told me she was glad the Illinois Supreme Court “upheld the will of the people and stood on the right side of history.”
James Rowe, state’s attorney for Kankakee County and a plaintiff in the case, didn’t respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, whose offices defended the legislation, pointed me to aIllinois' law abolished the requirement of monetary bail, replacing it with a default rule that makes all charged people eligible for release before conviction, with exceptions for some serious felonies and for people who pose a threat or might flee.
Their legal positions were underlaid by the unsupported policy argument that bail reform puts dangerous criminals back on the street.that localities that enacted bail reform between 2015-2021 experienced a slightly lower increase in homicide compared with pre-pandemic averages than cities with traditional “tough-on-crime” policies .
To my mind, the court’s concise analysis is an indication of how flagrantly unconstitutional many cash bail requirements around the country are. that it’s “so obvious” that the bail system “is totally ass-backwards in every respect.”
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