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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since when can every little Tom, Dick, Harry jurisdiction impose mask mandates in violation of a federal court order? Who gave them the power? They must be held in contempt and punitively fined into oblivion.


13 posted on 04/19/2022 1:38:51 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: DeplorablePaul
Since when can every little Tom, Dick, Harry jurisdiction impose mask mandates in violation of a federal court order? Who gave them the power? They must be held in contempt and punitively fined into oblivion.

The federal district court judge in Florida held that the federal rule adopted by the CDC, mandating the use of masks in interstate travel, was unlawful because the CDC was not authorized by the (federal) Public Health Services Act of 1944 to adopt such a rule. Whether or not some other jurisdiction (state or local) may be authorized by some provision of state or local law to adopt a mask mandate was not at issue in the case.

Thus, a state or local jurisdiction that has adopted a mask mandate pursuant to some state or local law would not be acting in violation of the district court's decision. Now, if some state or local jurisdiction has adopted a mask mandate for which there is no authority under state or local law, that would be a different matter. But it would be a matter for the relevant state court system to decide.

Such an outcome is commonplace in our federal system.

23 posted on 04/19/2022 3:23:43 PM PDT by DSH
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To: DeplorablePaul
Since when can every little Tom, Dick, Harry jurisdiction impose mask mandates in violation of a federal court order? Who gave them the power? They must be held in contempt and punitively fined into oblivion.

Yeah, you'd think that's how it would work, but you'd have to sue the commie bastards yourself, and our legal system is so incredibly broken that you'd be lucky to get a ruling one way or another for another two years.

26 posted on 04/19/2022 9:34:03 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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