This month, the Illinois Supreme Court must weigh social justice against public safety. If the justices are wise, they will stop the state’s ill-advised abolition of money bail — for safety’s sake.
Elected prosecutors and sheriffs from across the state are challenging that law on the grounds the Illinois Constitution grants defendants the right to be “bailable by sufficient sureties” except those whose offense entails a life term or “pose a real and present threat to the physical safety of any person.”
