Chicago’s O’Hare Airport Suggests It Will Continue Forced Masking

Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Tuesday suggested that it will continue to force individuals to wear masks — a move which would effectively ignore the ruling from a federal judge who on Monday deemed President Biden’s federal mask mandate illegal.

“The safety and security of passengers and employees is the highest priority for the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA),” the airport said in a relatively unclear statement Tuesday afternoon.

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.

Considering the court order I will not accept any demand from a government employee about masks. If they want to tell me the airport terminal manager maintains this policy then a terminal employee can come and tell me in person.

There’s a reason I’ve taken a 2+ year hiatus from flying.

I haven't flown since the TSA was created. Not willing to let a bunch of NAZIs have control over my travel. Having been to airports to pick up other folk, and seen plenty of stuff on the web, I can safely say it has been a good choice, as there is no way in hell that I could keep my mouth shut around those mouth-breathers.

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.

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