Lawyer who helped dismantle Pritzker's school mask mandate announces run for attorney general [View all]

The downstate lawyer who has made a name for himself by waging legal battles against Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 mitigation measures now says he’s running for Illinois attorney general to tackle corruption and take on the Democratic governor’s “tyrannical behavior.”

Tom DeVore is behind the lawsuit that has undone much of Pritzker’s statewide school mask mandate — for now, at least — marking a rare win for the Bond County attorney after nearly two years of mostly unsuccessful challenges to the governor’s pandemic restrictions.

DeVore said he decided to run for statewide office as a Republican last week after an Illinois appellate court shot down an attempt by incumbent Democratic Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul to keep masking requirements in place for hundreds of school districts.

“It really kind of changed my perspective. I saw kids across the state standing up for themselves,” DeVore said in a video to his Facebook followers late Monday.

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