The Supreme Court on July 4 denied an emergency request from Illinois Republicans seeking to block a state measure that bars large gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Several Illinois Republican organizations had asked the nation’s top court to intervene after lower courts denied their request to immediately block enforcement of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s executive order that prohibits gatherings of more than 50 people. They argued the governor had been favoring one category of speech over another by providing exemptions to the prohibition to religious gatherings and allowing Black Lives Matter protests but not political gatherings.
