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Tom DeVore, who unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for Illinois attorney general in 2022, will lose his law license for 60 days, per a recent Illinois Supreme Court order.

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, DeVore represented then-state Rep. Darren Bailey, who would go on to lose his own bid for governor in 2022, in a lawsuit challenging Gov. JB Pritzker’s stay-at-home orders.

The attorney later signed up hundreds of plaintiffs for more COVID-related legal challenges.

One of those clients was a married Springfield salon owner who quickly became DeVore’s girlfriend, according to state disciplinary panel documents. The panel ruled DeVore acted imprudently both by having a sexual relationship with her and in his actions after their relationship ended

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