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(The Center Square) – Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has filed a counter brief challenging a judge’s decision that ruled the pretrial release portion of the SAFE-T Act is unconstitutional. In the brief, Raoul arg.
“The circuit court’s decision finding the detention provisions unconstitutional should be reversed,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office wrote in a brief Thursday.
The attorney general’s office argued that history was on its side, stating “monetary bail was all but unknown at the time the 1818 Constitution was drafted.”
The Illinois attorney general s office on Thursday filed its opening argument with the state s highest court as it seeks to overturn a judge s ruling that found parts of the controversial SAFE-T Act unconstitutional.