Southern Illinois judge temporarily blocks Pritzker's stay-at-home order from applying to GOP state

[mucifer]

Source: Chicago Tribune

A southern Illinois judge delivered a setback to Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday, issuing a temporary injunction allowing Republican state Rep. Darren Bailey to ignore the governor’s stay-at-home order.

The ruling by Clay County Circuit Court Judge Michael McHaney came in a lawsuit filed by Bailey, a Republican from the small town of Xenia, which challenged Pritzker’s authority to issue extended stay-at-home orders under the state’s Emergency Management Act.

In seeking the injunction April 23, Bailey asked the judge to find that the lawmaker was “irreparably harmed each day he is subjected to” Pritzker’s executive order and to enjoin the governor or anyone under his authority “from enforcing the March 20 executive order against Bailey from this date forward.”

It was not immediately clear what effect the temporary restraining order would have on other Illinois residents besides Bailey.

Read more: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-illinois-stay-at-home-lawsuit-20200427-luf5hsnhpff7harnkckfopq26u-story.html

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This is my state. Governor Pritzker and his team have been working so hard to protect us from the virus. Of course Pritzker is challenging it.

[murielm99]

1. Republican scum

trying to kill all of us.

[iluvtennis]

8. +1000 nt.

[Thekaspervote]

2. My state too! Leave it to some southern gop judge to rule on that. It will never stand

[yuiyoshida]

3. more proof the Republican party is a death cult..

[MyOwnPeace]

4. But wait!!!!

Isn't that the "Death Panel" that Sarah Palen warned us about?

[ananda]

7. It certainly is.

I hate Reeps these days.. really hate them

[yuiyoshida]

20. Don't worry....

They and Trump will get theirs,if one ...Dies of Clorox Bleach poisoning.

[dhill926]

5. so this is a lawsuit from an individual?

wtf? Coming soon...10 million from Florida....

[mucifer]

6. Illinois is a blue state. We can beat this. But, the purple states with governors who believe in

science and republican courts could be screwed.

[Chicago1980]

9. It's always some south of I-80 republican douche.....

Last edited Mon Apr 27, 2020, 10:55 PM - Edit history (1)

Lightfoot said the order remains in play in Chicago.

[Progressive Jones]

13. This guy is way South of I-80. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Yes, About 300 Miles

A little less but close.
I'm south of I-80, but only about 10 minutes.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Do his fellow repubs believe it also applies to any similar type order from repub governors, no matt

Do his fellow repubs believe it also applies to any similar type order from repub governors, no matter what the reason/emergency?

Surely they would.

[turbinetree]

11. How many people from the surrounding area have virus called COVID19

.................the fucking insanity gets worse and worse each day.............does this Bailey character know anything about safety, or protecting his neighbor from a virus...........JFC............... its always about them every fucking time.............

[moose65]

12. Is this a new thing?

I’m soon to be 55 years old. I really don’t remember reading stories about people suing the government for executive orders or things of that nature. Did I miss something? Is this a relatively recent phenomenon?

The whole idea of states suing to overturn a federal law (i.e. Obamacare) is such a strange concept to me, that I don’t remember happening in the past. Don’t Republicans hate those “activist judges”?? 🙄

[BlueIdaho]

14. Invite the judge to come on down to Xenia

And hang out with the fine folk. Don’t worry about all the coughing and sneezing - its hay fever season your honor.

[Karadeniz]

15. What part of Emergency does the judge not understand?

[ancianita]

18. +1

[Marcuse]

16. Snowflake

[orleans]

17. i tweeted something about this earlier so my daughter would see it

she told me tonight she went on bailey's twitter feed and looked around, telling me he acts like he's pretty religious (oh, don't they all???) i said "well obviously he's full of shit when it comes to that."

[Midnight Writer]

19. Downstate counties Jasper and Randolph have the worst percentage of Covid victims.

Chicago and the beltway counties of course have the most cases, but the last numbers I saw had Jasper and Randolph ahead in cases per thousand residents.

Rural areas are not prepared for what is going to hit them.

Many do not take this seriously.

[mopinko]

23. and when they do, they will expect

chicago to come bail out their hospitals.

[AwakeAtLast]

21. Bailey is my State Senator!

Everyone here is absolutely crowing over this!

I think it is silly, it was a personal lawsuit only.

[mopinko]

24. update- this got a stay this morning.

of course, pritzker went to court and stopped this nonsense.
apparently the order only covered the clown who sued anyway.

anything for headlines. poor futile idiots.

[murielm99]

25. Thanks for the update!