“This new information offers a more complete picture,” DeVore said in a statement, “and brings to light additional problems in regard to the procedural and substantive shortcomings of the governor’s office and the Board of Health’s safeguarding of the civil rights of the citizens of the state.” In a discussion with Capitol News Illinois, DeVore said, “Have you ever heard … the Department of Public Health or the governor’s office say to the public that you have rights of due process?”

The argument has support, certainly downstate. There’s certainly a portion of the nation that has had enough of staying inside, and they’re ready to start working and keeping creditors at bay.

WCIA-TV’s Mark Maxwell reported that during the Clay County hearing, “… the audience in the courtroom … laughed on several occasions, including at one point when the attorney general’s office argued people’s lives would be at stake if the stay-at-home order was nullified. People who wore masks were openly mocked.”

Disappointingly, we seem to be leaning as a society toward needing to revel in someone else’s defeat to celebrate our own victories.

If this is a legitimate challenge, more power to Bailey and his attorneys as they work through the system. We think Bailey is wasting time showboating when other methods are available.