State Rep. David McSweeney is asking the U.S. Attorney General to review the governor’s stay-at-home guidelines, which McSweeney called “overreaching and unconstitutional directives.”
In a letter McSweeney sent Wednesday to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, the Barrington Hills Republican expressed concerns about the lengths Gov. JB Pritzker might go to enforce his stay-at-home order. Specifically, McSweeney alleged the governor would withhold federal funds, revoke business licenses, restrain religious freedoms and charge business owners with a crime to enforce his emergency orders.
McSweeney said Pritzker considered all options to enforce the stay-at-home order, including withholding federal funding. He said in the letter that Pritzker’s actions deprive Illinois residents of emergency funding that was allocated to local governments in the fight against COVID-19.
“This should not be allowed,” he said.
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