Article Summary The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to overturn a 40-year-old Illinois law that bans organizations from using a political party’s name without permission. A first amendment advocacy group is suing Illinois’ secretary of state over a 40-year-old law that prohibits nonprofits from having the word “Democrat” or “Republican” in their name without the party’s approval. “We haven’t gotten a request from this group,” a spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Illinois said in a statement. “But frankly, whether we did or not, the fact that they’re proudly anti-transgender does not align with the Democratic Party of Illinois’s values. Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide.