Posted on 07/08/2022 3:02:17 PM PDT by Libloather
OLYMPIA - In the weeks before the start of the 2022 legislative session, majority Democrats signed off on a plan for conducting business in the House of Representatives in the ongoing pandemic.
It required lawmakers be vaccinated to participate in floor session and to access their offices. It restricted where the public could go. Overall, many elements didn’t sit well with Republicans.
Six of them, including Granite Falls Rep. Robert Sutherland, sued in November, alleging the House plan created “separate and unequal classes of legislators” and violated their right to freedom of speech and laws regarding discrimination.
On July 1, their fight came to an end when Thurston County Superior Court Judge Mary Sue Wilson dismissed the case.
“After nearly 50 lawsuits, we continue our undefeated record defending state COVID-19 policies aimed at keeping Washingtonians safe,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said.
The outcome wasn’t a total surprise. Much changed from the time the suit was filed and the session had ended when the parties faced off in court, effectively mooting many of the plaintiffs’ points.
“I think the court landed where it did because the rules we challenged had been updated throughout the legislative session,” said Pete Serrano, an attorney with the nonprofit Silent Majority Foundation that represented the legislators.
No appeal is planned.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldnet.com ...
Judge Mary Sue Wilson was appointed by Governor Jay Inslee to the Thurston County Superior Court and began serving as a superior court judge in October 2014.
” Much changed from the time the suit was filed “ Like it being a fact that the vaccine is no longer effective at preventing disease or it’s transmission. There should be no benefit from a vaccine mandate other than politics...
If legislators from another party cannot even access their offices, much less participate in floor sessions, without a gov’t coercion of the jab, then Washington State no longer has a Republican form of government. More than just a whiff of a plan to reduce the citizens to despotism.
Article IV, Section 4, and the federal gov’t is in breach.
This affects primarily legislators (mostly Republican) from east of the Cascades. Might as well meet in Moses Lake and join the Greater Idaho movement. Throw off the shackles that bind them to another people and form a government designed to protect their Liberty and Property.
Screw the Puget Sound commies.
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