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    Illinois high court halts elimination of cash bail

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    FILE - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul speaks at a rally to call on the National Archivist to publish the Equal Rights Amendment as an amendment in the Constitution, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 28, 2022. Raoul on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, filed paperwork with the state Supreme Court to appeal a local judge's ruling that eliminating cash bail for criminal defendants is unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill.  — The Illinois Supreme Court has halted provisions of a new law that would eliminate cash bail for criminal defendants, issuing a stay hours before the new policies were set to take...

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