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By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – After a Sangamon County judge kicked off everybody’s weekend by tossing Gov. JB Pritzker’s school mask mandates, the governor and attorney general began an appeal.
“Masks, for most people, anyway, have been about doing what’s right,” Pritzker said Monday morning. “Nowhere is that more true than in schools, which are community hubs” where all manner of Illinoisans interact.
Those who oppose the governor’s mandates, though, point to New Jersey as a state where a Democratic governor appears to be easing up on mandates.
“Masks work, which is why Illinois is leading the Midwest in its pandemic response,” added the governor, who says Judge Raylene Grishow and those who agree with her are misreading the law.
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