The Virginia Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit that challenged Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s order barring mask mandates in state schools. The lawsuit was filed in January by a group of parents in Chesapeake against the governor’s mask order, which stipulated that parents should have the right to choose whether to allow their children to wear masks or not while in class. Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares both hailed the ruling, describing it as a victory for parents in Virginia. “Today, the Supreme Court of Virginia rejected a challenge out of the City of Chesapeake to Governor Youngkin’s Executive Order Number 2. The Governor and I are pleased with today’s ruling. At the beginning of this pandemic, Governor Northam used his broad emergency powers to close places of worship, private businesses, and schools and impose a statewide mask mandate,” Miyares, a Republican, said Monday in a statement. The attorney general said …