A federal judge in Tampa, Florida has vacated the federal transportation mask mandate for planes, trains, buses and public Transporation. [PDF Ruling Available Here]
In essence, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle found the CDC exceeded its statutory authority with the mask mandate and violated the rules that guide CDC regulations. After Joe Biden arbitrarily announced the federal transportation mandate, the CDC triggered enforcement of the mask mandate without any required time for public feedback on a new regulation.
Within the ruling, one of the commonsense arguments against the federal mandate was noted. Prior to Joe Biden taking office there was no mask mandate. At the time Joe Biden took office and invoked the mask mandate, there was nothing substantively different in/around the spread of COVID-19 and the mitigation efforts underway.
The federal mask mandate was arbitrary and capricious with no justification from the CDC and no required time for the public to provide feedback. The government’s legal argument was that public feedback, comments on rulemaking, was irrelevant because the mandate was going to be enforced regardless of public opinion. That argument was summarily dispatched by the judge saying, just because the government has a pre-determined outcome in mind does not relinquish them from the obligation to follow the rules.
Sensing they were going to lose the case, remarkably the government lawyers argued that only the original plaintiffs in the lawsuit should be granted relief. Meaning, only the two people who filed the lawsuit should be exempt from the federal mask mandate. That didn’t work.
The federal transportation mask mandate is vacated.
If you were to visit NY City, you would think it was still 2020.
The dumb libs will never give up their face diapers.
Seneca. Interesting but so true. Ontario is full of the mask lovers.
If I go to Bass Pro or a real man’s hardware store, nobody. But a pharmacy?🤦♂️ Unbelievable. The over 70 demographic and white women are unbelievable. They just can’t let this go.
Family aged men are by far the least stupid. Many moms are also awesome.
The Asian community which you would think would respect freedoms just won’t let the mask die either. Brainwashing is very real. I don’t know why some people just have a discerning mind, and others are so stupid. A flower pot has more brains than many Canadians.
DD
White female, 71, cancer survivor and a compromised immune system. The only times I have worn a mask is when I have to go to my appointments at my doctors offices and hospital for treatment every six months.
Please don’t include all of us in your opinion(s).
Thank you
When I see an older person wearing a mask, I figure they may be high risk or have a spouse at home who is high risk. Anyone else, all I can do is shake my head.
If you look at news reports or even just candid photographs from China and Japan, these folks have been wearing masks for decades. I noticed this about 20 years ago. I don’t mean a majority but a sizeable minority.
When I lived in China, I always chuckled at all of the mask wearers. I think they thought it helped clean the dirty, polluted air they had to breathe. Or helped stop germs, I’m not sure, but many wear masks in China. I’ve always thought it had little effect…
Not a scientific study by any means, but in the Seattle proper area and immediate suburbs heavily influenced by Seattle libs, it seems to me (age 76 female) that the majority of people still wearing masks after the mandate was removed (about a month ago) are young people, minority ethnic groups, and older women. Older men who are wearing masks tend to be with presumably their wives. When I go into any store, proudly unmasked, most others unmasked are men in my age group who are alone. It surprises me that so many young people in the 20’s age group are still wearing masks, both men and women.
right… college (liberal arts) “educated” women 25-45 – highest percentage of loonies.
OR California….
Sheeple!
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Then the pubs need to get better at cheating if this is how the future of elections are won. Our side needs to Deploy at least 10,000 operatives. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Wouldn’t it be something if the final vote count was 150 million to 180 million? Maybe this scenario would raise a few eyebrows.
Dems have 2 national organizations infiltrating our rural community this weekend to canvass for two candidates for . . . school board. They’re recruiting people from all over the country, including paid positions.
Stated reason: To insure “safe schools for ALL” (translation: mixed genders in bathrooms and sports) Real reason: our community hit #42 in the list of “least affordable” communities in America. The others on the list are a handful of western states and dozens of communities in NY and CA.
We have exploding housing (23 subdivisions last year, several with 500+ homes, most by California developers), exploding tax base, so now Dems want to spend millions to install Dems in positions like the school board that are not even paid positions. They’re counting on their millions in election investments to yield Democrat control and siphoning of millions of this new property tax revenue.
I wonder how many of their big “ideological” initiatives , just like this one, boil down to one ideal: money grubbing.
My conservative women’s group has activated. We have 2 solid conservative candidates. Starting tomorrow, sign waving, mailers. One member is letting her panel truck be wrapped with a campaign wrapper tomorrow that we’ll keep moving or parking around our schools and downtown.
What’s the GOP doing? As usual, zilch. The county party doesn’t even have the race, voting locations or Republican candidate names or bios on their website. While the Dems bus in canvassers from out of state. “Our party” is a ball and chain.
IIRC, the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the eviction moratorium also invoked the phrase, “…even in pursuit of desirable ends.”
The airlines had already unsuccessfully petitioned the regime to drop the mandate, so it’s unlikely they will enforce a mandate on their aircraft.
The issue is likely to become Leftists on airplanes freaking out about non-masked citizens.
The Biden regime is not exploring its legal options to appeal the case. They’re going to look at the polling. My guess is that the CDC was given 2 additional weeks to see how people reacted to the extension of the rule. Since nobody flipped out, they’ll assume they are on good polling ground despite the cratering of their polling. Also, like a lot of the mask mandates, Liberals were given an extra month to enjoy wearing their masks before losing their ability to judge others while silently grinning under their masks about all the sheeple they have been able to control.
CDC gave them 2 added weeks to adjust to a world without masks. I still see lunatics wearing them at the store, but at least we know who the lunatics are.
You see lunatics wearing them at the store? I still see people out walking their dogs with masks on. You can’t fix stupid.
I still see people wearing masks driving alone.
Same here. Leaving the grocery store and they are wearing them in the parking lot going to and from the car.
there is also the legal issue..
airlines would not dare to risk having their insurer raise rates or even drop coverage including legal “assistance” is someone died or was infected and died and it could be proven as a result of airtravel on their carrier.
Major insurers are about risk management…and more risk = more riders and more fees.
what major insurers have adopted is a means to cause air carriers to be dissuaded from a financial and risk metric. They actually make more money, by not losing it from “frivolous lawsuits”, or even the legitimate type.
Now that their regulatory agency governing these mandates have lifted them, the insurers are satisfied and the airlines are rewarded with better rates…so how this works.
stick…carrot..
you want to risk owning a major lawsuit when not following your agencies mandates about health and safety in the fleet, and then having your insurer argue in court they are not bound to provide coverage based on the fact that the terms of the contract spell out that one of the reasons for immediate cancellation and a non refundable condition with penalties for any unsatisfied fee schedules to term….It’s get very expensive operating an airline and having your insurer basically use a very powerful weapon to force you to comply. The FAA can even move to cancel and insurer who does not follow the “blueprint”.
that’s how it goes. That is not to say there are some very bad executives in the US airline industry..there most certainly is that.
But what drives the airlines is revenue and risk avoidance.
I think this also applies to nearly every other major corportation and to some extent all the way to the mom and pop shop.
replace insurer, with local ordinance and special health rules. there are literally thousands of “agencies” that enforce compliance with masks…
…because the cdc sez so.
because the safe money is agree with the cdc even though they are probably very wrong.
that’s how it goes.
Kind of late….don’t ya think? We have suffered this tyranny for more than 2 years and continue to suffer while the DOJ reviews the decision? A ruling from a Federal Judge is not sufficient?
The CDC can recommend any damned thing they want,, but mandate or require? It was obvious from the beginning that all these COVID mandates were unConstitutional and yet were enforced and Americans suffered the consequences, many lost their jobs, were publicly humiliated, many lost income…so can we sue for damages?
Lost jobs. Lost small businesses. Lost life savings spent. Lost middle class status.
Just like the DeepState/WEF/Globalists intended.
Sue who? Cuomo, Newsom, Wolfe, Murphy ?
Sue, yes. Win, no. They all had the cover of a “national emergency”.
Is this going to be one of those “nice court ruling you have there, now let’s see the court enforce it” moments?
Very happy to see my ‘fears’ are not warranted, saw the twitter links posted on the other thread about this, airlines are already dropping their mask mandates. Wonderful news!
It should have been ruled unlawful from day one.
Dictatorship:
“The government’s legal argument was that public feedback, comments on rulemaking, was irrelevant because the mandate was going to be enforced regardless of public opinion.“
At last,…. Sanity and Rule of Law instead of more Dem Fascism,… thanks Judge Mizelle.
Your consent is their permission. When we stop dancing around these symptoms and start going after the actual problem things will change.
The federal administrative agencies need to be defunded and closed down.
^^^^^^^^^ That’s the answer!^^^^^^^^^
Millions of overweight cat mommies are taking an extra antidepressant with their box wine dinner tonight.
Political mask nonsense.
Expect the Biden administration to appeal. Also expect every affected company to comply with the CDC invalid mandate.
Nobody actually pays attention to the science. They simply blindly follow whatever the CDC says, even when they are wrong. Because none of the heads of these companies wants to challenge authority because they don’t want to get in trouble. Your health is simply much less important to them. They will do what they are told, even when it is illegal.
At a minimum, they should tell people on planes that they need to have their mask on in order to comply with the illegal mask mandates of the CDC.
And 2 airlines said they would keep the mask mandate in place. Many pilots and flight attendants do not like the mandate and were anxious for it to expire.
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BREAKING: Delta, Alaska, and United Airlines will no longer require masks on flights.
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Her Honor wrote this 58-page decision as though she knew full well that it would soon be beaten to death. But I consider it to be an excellent piece of judicial scholarship.
I see older folk like me in stores etc wearing masks, and I cut em some slack, assume they are compromised or something. But people of any age outside walking by themselves or driving a car by themselves? come on, man.
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Mizelle clerked for 4 federal judges:
Judge Moody on her current court
Judge Pryor on the appellate court that supervises her court
Judge Katsas on the appellate court that supervises the administrative state
Justice Thomas on the Court that supervises all
She’s brilliant.
2:52 PM · Apr 18, 2022
This judge deserves to have her courtroom flooded with letters of thanks from Americans nationwide.
She made a totally non political judgement based on facts and constitutional assignment of authority.
This judgement should have been made 2 years ago, but may be even more impactful now, as the dam is breaking.
Thank you.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle
United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
We will never forget.
And now we wait for a Clinton/Bush/ Obama Federal Judge to rescind this…..We know it’s coming, the search will be on for that Judge. OR…. They’ll send it to SCOTUS and Kavanaugh and Barrett will KILL IT….
“Asymptomatic Spread” Bottom line is it was a huge lie from the tyrants that wanted to lock us down and enslave us forever! A virus does not spread from a healthy person without symptoms. The WHO, CDC, Media and all the criminals should face the death penalty for Crimes Against Humanity. Then there is the clot shots on top of that! 100k more deaths than average per month in the USA since the death jabs were started! Before the toxic gene altering jabs deaths were average to below average. Did you get that? During the Pandemic, which they had to change the definition of to call Covid-19 a pandemic, deaths were at or below average. How does this make any sense? We were lied to and are still being lied to! These people need to be held accountable! If the establishment doesn’t hold them accountable We The People Will!