Posted on 08/03/2021 2:14:37 AM PDT by RandFan
Kentucky Fourth District Congressman Thomas Massie and two of his Republican House colleagues are suing Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the chamber’s mask mandate, which was instituted due to COVID-19.
Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and South Carolina’s Ralph Norman filed the suit against Pelosi to challenge what they term her imposition of unconstitutional fines against them.
The $500 fines were levied after Massie, Greene and Norman declined to wear a mask on the floor of the House of Representatives as an expression of symbolic speech that is constitutionally protected by the First Amendment.
They say Speaker Pelosi violated the plain language of the 27th Amendment to the Constitution when she sought to change members’ salaries as punishment for not wearing a mask on the very same day Speaker herself chose not to wear a mask.
“We are fighting this fight because if they can get away with this in Congress, they’ll do the same things to our kids when they go back to school, they’ll do the same things to hard-working Americans in their workplaces and they’ll do the same things to our soldiers,” Massie stated. “We are standing up to Pelosi for the American people who are tired of mask mandates, vaccine coercion and violations of basic constitutional rights.”
The suit has been filed at U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The named defendants are House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), William J. Walker in his official capacity as sergeant of arms of the U.S. House of Representatives and Catherine Szpindor in her official capacity as chief administrative officer of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Perhaps this is fighting _back_... i suppose that’s good and im glad.
What would give me hope is if some pols fought _first_.
Get on offense! Defense is important too but i would like some Trump type offense. Moar Trump offense... let them defend.
Ok good morning.
Who cares?
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