Katherine mosell was 33 years old when she was appointed to the bench. She clerked for clarence mis and gave a speech where she said that paper money is unconstitutional. And so this opinion that she handed down on the masked mandate is exactly what you would expect from some one with this resime. The law says that the c d c is allowed to make sanitation regulations. Her primary argument is that sanitation only refers to cleaning something up, and not preventing it from getting dirty in the first place.
A Florida judge ended the federal government’s mass transit mask mandate this week. Vox’s Dylan Scott explains if mask mandates are over forever and Dr. Kavita Patel explores how much of a difference that would make.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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