Gov. Ron DeSantis, announced Tuesday that Florida and 20 other states are suing the Biden administration over the federal mask mandate on transportation.
"It's not something grounded in any science," DeSantis said."If you have somebody sitting in the window seat, and they're nibbling on peanuts for 2 ½ hours, they have their mask down." Attorney General Ashley Moody, who is spearheading the legal effort, called the rule an unlawful"power grab."
"This order is completely outside the bounds of the scope of federal power," she said."President Biden’s shortsighted, heavy-handed and unlawful travel policies are frustrating travelers and causing chaos on public transportation." The complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida asks a judge to block the rule's enforcement and ultimately overturn it. Moody led 22 other state attorneys general in demanding the end of the Head Start program’s mask mandate in participating schools and daycares that forced the masking of children as young as two years old.Rebecca Rosenberg is a veteran journalist and book author with a focus on crime and criminal justice.
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