The Illinois Supreme Court announced on Saturday night that the state's cash bail system would not end on Sunday, January 1 – the day that the controversial SAFE-T Act was supposed to go into effect.
means that the court will decide later what should happen.
State Senate Democrats filed a trailer bill to the law this week, addressing concerns with the Pretrial Fairness Act.
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