Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie announced a lawsuit that he and 16 other congressmen filed this week regarding masking on airplanes.
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The lawsuit (against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle P. Walensky in her official capacity as Director of the CDC, and Sherri A. Berger in her official capacity as Chief of Staff of the CDC) was filed to end the requirement of passengers wearing masks on commercial airplanes following the Biden administration having extended the requirement another 30 days, to April 18.
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not have the legal authority to force people traveling on commercial airlines to wear masks,” Representative Thomas Massie said. “Congress never passed a law requiring masks on commercial flights. This lawsuit targets the faceless bureaucrats who are behind the CDC’s unscientific regulation so that this illegal mask mandate can be brought to a permanent end.”
The plaintiffs in the case say “the mask mandate is beyond the CDC’s statutory authority or is unconstitutional.” They’re also seeking an injunction against enforcing the illegal mandate.
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The congressmen joining the lawsuit are: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV), Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL), Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT), and Rep. Chip Roy, (R-TX).
“It’s time to stop wearing masks on airplanes. It’s been 2 years. Enough is enough,” tweeted Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Even as far back as December of 2021, the CEOs of two major airlines said they didn’t believe wearing masks was necessary on airplanes due to high quality HEPA filters and airflow on the planes.
Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said at the time, “I think the case is very strong that masks don’t add much, if anything, in the air cabin environment. It is very safe and very high quality compared to any other indoor setting.”
“I concur,” said American Airlines CEO Doug Parker. “An aircraft is the safest place you can be. It’s true of all of our aircraft — they all have the same HEPA filters and airflow.”
Nevertheless, Biden has decided to extend the mask requirement for airlines yet again. Several of the plaintiff Congressmen pointed out that the mandates are not laws, that they’re not scientific, and they’re unconstitutional.
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Let’s go Brandon
Mandates are not laws That’s why its a different word.
Masks that aren’t specific to preventing transmission of viruses shouldn’t be mandated Masks for bacteria aren’t applicable. Scarves and hankies don’t count Dust masks for protecting against wood shavings or asbestos don’t count.
But the idiots will enforce idiots wearing them.
Idiots run the show.
That’s an unambiguously and demonstrably true statement. Mandates aren’t laws in Australia, either.
Yet strangely, Australian cops happily beat the living shit out of old women and children (you’ve all seen the video footage), shoot unarmed peaceful protesters with rubber bullets, fine people thousands of dollars and throw them into jail, for not complying with mandates.
Many thousands of people have lost their jobs or businesses for not complying with mandates.
And retail stores will refuse entry to anyone who declines to show their “vaccination” certificate or scan their QR code – even though these are all just mandates, not laws.
So someone somewhere had better rein in the Globalist psycopaths, because it’s looking an awful lot like whatever we thought was the legal framework underpinning our “democratic” society has been thrown out the window and replaced by arbitrary rules plucked out of the arses of a cabal of unelected beauracrats who strangely enough all seem to be on-board with Klaus Schwab’s vision for the New World Order.
Deleting comments that are not rude or offensive when discussing idiotic mafates is rude. Really rude. And unacceptable behaviour
Airlines are corporate. They will do whatever they want while saying they don’t believe in it’s necessity. If it’s not necessary then stop, but they don’t. They are in the ‘profit pile-up’ with the Feds.
We’ve watched for decades as the POTUS EO approach became the self-appointed ruling class’s path around the American People. Here again, we see dictatorial mandates used by Biden via EOs that are illegal, unconstitutional, do not follow any science and are just really stupid. But then, the self-identifying Dem stupids appear to love ‘stupid’.
The promise of more power and control over the public working on weak minds produces every kind of mischief.