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A day after Gov. J.B. Pritzker lifted the mask mandate at Illinois schools, a downstate attorney asked an Illinois judge to halt the COVID-19 masking requirement at Chicago Public Schools — one of only a handful of districts in the state still enforcing the practice.

Tom DeVore, who recently launched a bid for the state’s Republican nomination for attorney general, filed a motion Tuesday with Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow requesting a temporary restraining order, arguing the children of Chicago parents who filed a lawsuit against the governor and the Illinois Department of Public Health “are suffering continuing harm.”

“Each is being subjected to wearing a mask as a type of quarantine without being provided” their rights of due process, DeVore said in the motion. […]

The teachers union said the suit is being pushed by someone “trying to leverage the safety and wellbeing of our school communities for his own political gain.”

* Dude has some serious grammar issues that match his addiction to drama…

We are going to put for the biggest lawsuit against public school districts ever seen in this nation real soon to put…

Posted by Thomas DeVore on Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Such tyranny. Might as well be living in Ukraine under the Russian jackboot, right?

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 9:52 am

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How exactly can he justify filing a lawsuit in Sangamon County that pertains exclusively to a policy choice by Chicago Public Schools? There’s no statewide school mask mandate any more, so this has nothing to do with state government.

Comment by cover Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 9:56 am

All authority is tyranny. Gotcha.

I doubt many Devore followers and their families attend/attended college so that seems like a misplaced priority.

Comment by Big Dipper Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 9:57 am

-How exactly can he justify filing a lawsuit in Sangamon County that pertains exclusively to a policy choice by Chicago Public Schools?-

That’s where the IL Sup Ct consolidated cases related to mask mandates.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 9:58 am

Not surprising that the public colleges would be the next target, though it appears they only still require them in classroom settings and places governed by contracts or federal law, not dorms, etc. Wrinkle there is the parents can’t sue for students 18+. The students would have to do it themselves.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 10:01 am

Can anyone pull Tom DeVore aside and explain that he is not only out of his league but is wading into a space for which he is unprepared.

Grammar and syntax…obviously, DeVore skipped multiple chapters.

Comment by Rudy’s teeth Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 10:09 am

To Rich’s last point: one would have thought that the events in Ukraine would have made some people re-evaluate their rhetoric, whether it’s the people who claim Chicago is a “war zone” or people who claim political adversaries are tyrants.

But no. Asking people to take even the smallest bit of action like putting on a mask in a crowded room to help their vulnerable neighbors continues to be characterized as equivalent to being sent to the Gulag. Tell me again that “all lives matter,” though. I really believe that you mean it, Tommy and Richard (Irvin, not Miller).

Comment by Anon324 Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 10:19 am

“I doubt many Devore followers and their families attend/attended college so that seems like a misplaced priority.”

Stop. I despise the troll that is Devore as much as the next reasonable person, but there is no need to denigrate people who don’t go to college.

Comment by Montrose Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 10:21 am

Hold on now. Wait just a minute. Stop the presses. Why is Attorney Tom DeVore filing a new lawsuit? Why isn’t he just filing a motion or something on the previous TRO that the Chicago School parents were part of? I mean he’s been telling everyone that TRO is alive and well and he’s been taking money and adding families to it.

So why this new starting over with the BIGGEST LAWSUIT ever???
You think any of those puppets will see that and say anything?

Comment by Club J Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 10:23 am

When I hear Bailey and Devore, I think GOP. This is the brand I see.

Comment by Kayak Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 10:23 am

Leave it to Tom DeVore to give trial lawyers a bad name.

Comment by Name Withheld Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 10:30 am

This is a safe lawsuit, right? Sue now that the mask mandate is over, get an established anti-mask judge to say remove the masks, and then wait for the appeals court declare the case moot in a couple weeks when Chicago Schools end the mask mandate of their own will, and according to science.

It is easy to look important. It is another thing to be important. DeVore is neither. He is a grifter, enriching himself at the expense of the less knowledgeable.

Comment by H-W Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 10:36 am

Montrose, I just meant that if they don’t go there what do they care about the mask policy there? My mother and brother did not attend college and are two of the smartest people I know. Try not to immediately assume the worst.

Comment by Big Dipper Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 10:47 am

Good. Maybe the appellate court will actually have to rule on it.

Comment by New Englander Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 11:01 am

Didn’t this judge in the TRO ruling also say that her ruling did not apply to school districts where the masks were part of a collective bargaining agreement? That would apply to CPS since it was bargained by the union.

Comment by DTown Resident Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 12:03 pm

==How exactly can he justify filing a lawsuit in Sangamon County that pertains exclusively to a policy choice by Chicago Public Schools==

I’m surprised he didn’t file the lawsuit in, say, Edwards County, based on the fact that its boundaries in 1815 included modern-day Chicago. While at the same time making some outlandish claim that Edwards County was “robbed” of their old boundaries.

1815 Illinois Territory County map (modern reproduction): http://www.maps.ilgw.org/il1815.htm

Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 12:50 pm

- Didn’t this judge in the TRO ruling also say that her ruling did not apply to school districts where the masks were part of a collective bargaining agreement? That would apply to CPS since it was bargained by the union. -

Good point. I’m going to look at her opinion now.

Comment by curious Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 1:22 pm

I will gladly support a collection to send Bailey, DeVore, Irving, and so on to a real war zone where liberty is actually threatened.

Comment by Publius Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 1:28 pm

I see my nine-year-old grandson struggling with grammar in school. Then I read everything DeVore writes and realize, “The kid’s not doing so bad after all.” Perhaps I should sign him up for the July bar exam.

Comment by DirtLawyer Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 1:50 pm

== Such tyranny. Might as well be living in Ukraine under the Russian jackboot, right ==

Mehbee tommy devore should move there ?

Comment by sal-says Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 2:57 pm

The appellate ruling stated, “We note the language of the TRO in no way restrains school districts from acting independently from the executive orders or the IDPH in creating provisions addressing COVID-19.” I’m not an attorney, but if it’s been made clear school districts could act on their own, where’s the basis for the lawsuit? I know that’s never stopped DeVore before, but at what point does it become filing frivolous litigation?

Comment by MyTwoCents Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 4:52 pm

I’m guessing the lawsuit will be based on a theory that CPS and CTU cannot bargain away someone else’s due process rights. I’m not sure if DeVore realizes quite how big of a bite he’s taking if he goes that route, though.

Comment by Anon324 Wednesday, Mar 2, 22 @ 5:26 pm

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