The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes, trains and travel hubs, officials said Wednesday.
It came minutes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the Justice Department to appeal the decision handed down by a federal judge in Florida earlier this week.
A notice of appeal was filed in federal court in Tampa.
The CDC said in a statement on Wednesday that it is its “continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the public health.”
The CDC said it will continue to monitor public health conditions to determine if a mandate would remain necessary. It said it believes the mandate is “a lawful order, well within CDC’s legal authority to protect public health.”
(AP)
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Great news! And I hope the CDC advice prevails.
The CDC has a board made up of Big Pharma ex-employees and other cronies and is conveniently ‘pulling the arm’ of the government to play ‘enforcer’ to their shifty and truly unsubstantiated research reports. Even surgeons only wear masks in case they sneeze on an open body. Mask mandates are a sponsored opportunity for medical supply manufacturers and for Big Pharma to incite irrational fear.
No one expects the government to be ‘Big Nanny’ – certain not to force or even coerce mask wearing or experimental ‘vaccine’ taking either. This is a democracy that we have to be praying for, not an oligarchy or any other type of bullying republic that pushes people to abide by sponsored theory as if it were totally age-old well proven science.
How nice that the CDC thinks the law was lawful. But that’s not the only reason it was thrown out. The judge said straight forward that the procedure taken to put the mandate in place was not lawful. So go ahead and get your beloved stalinesque mandates back. Then you’ll need to go through the proper procedures to create the mandate and by that time 5 different Carona variants will have come and gone. But the ikkar here is the desire of the executive departments to judicially create the ability to demand obedience from a federal level without the necessity of those pesky lawmakers.