The court did not explain its decision to reject the arguments by Jussie Smollett’s lawyers.

On Friday, a judge suggested Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx mishandled the case by appointing a top aide to handle it after she recused herself.

"I just need the police to come by. I work for an artist. I don’t really want to say his name," the caller told the 911 operator.

'I have been asking myself for the last two weeks what is this really about,' Cook County State’s prosecutor Kim Foxx said.

Chicago's top prosecutor said that her office believed actor Jussie Smollett "culpable" in the criminal case but said her office never intended to seal the court records.

Chicago police provided a six-night hotel stay and 24-hour security to two brothers at the heart of the Jussie Smollett investigation, according to investigative reports released Wednesday to several media outlets.

The Chicago police union's president alleges that the county's top prosecutor interfered with the investigation of Jussie Smollett before recusing herself.

Jussie Smollett is due to appear in court again March 14.

Smollett has said two masked men shouting racial and anti-gay slurs and “This is MAGA country!” beat him and looped a rope around his neck early on Jan. 29