Glad the Justice Department has nothing better to do. . .

[cardcrimson]

Fighting airline mask mandates? Sheesh.

Sure glad there isn’t widespread corruption at the highest levels to think about.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2022/04/19/mask-mandate-doj-appeal/7374598001/

[rogpodge]

In this context, the Justice Department represents the client agency.  Unless there is no legal basis / arguments to make, then the Department of Justice must represent the client agency’s legal (and political) position.  There have been cases where the government abandoned a position after the administration changed, and the Court appointed counsel to represent the position.  Blame HHS (Becerra, who first floated the idea of appealing) and the CDC.

Also, where’s the Department of Transportation in all this?  Wouldn’t this be under their jurisdiction?  Actually, I believe that this was part of the judge’s decision, but let’s be honest, Pete Buttigieg is a disaster as Secretary of Transportation.

[Beeg_Dawg]

Here is a pretty good editorial on the ruling.

Personally, I’m happy to see the mask mandate go away but I do not like the idea a single judge can turn the entire country on its head.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-hazard-filled-ruling-on-the-transportation-mask-mandate?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_042322&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=5be9d5af2ddf9c72dc1f8f81&cndid=39997201&hasha=d225fed2408c15e2cb14c75d46498ef3&hashb=4cc4d506b24f30fb59ff5d4ee6cdb39d6c22180a&hashc=9e484a9a30ab95c4e104eb3a49d5ff2d93c2346ba60306fe62f2ab6656d64a28&esrc=right_rail_magazine&mbid=CRMNYR012019

[Mick]

Here is a pretty good editorial on the ruling. Personally, I’m happy to see the mask mandate go away but I do not like the idea a single judge can turn the entire country on its head.

Agreed, but unfortunately it happens regularly.  That’s the system.

[Beeg_Dawg]

[quote quote=6036]

Here is a pretty good editorial on the ruling. Personally, I’m happy to see the mask mandate go away but I do not like the idea a single judge can turn the entire country on its head.

Agreed, but unfortunately it happens regularly. That’s the system.[/quote]

Mick, Can’t Roberts change this?  I read it was only a matter of procedure for the Chief Justice to change it.

[rjnwmill]

“but I do not like the idea a single judge can turn the entire country on its head.”

I don’t understand your suggestion that the entire country was turned on its head. Everyone can do as they wish. Feel free to wear a mask. Feel free to go massless.

Seems to me the mandate turned the whole country on its head.

Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long

[Beeg_Dawg]

Bob, you missed my point.  I was not referring to the mandate in this case, I was commenting on the fact that only one federal judge is required to override ANY administrations  decisions or policies .

Looking back, inferior courts blocked most of Trump’s executive orders.  1 judge, 1 decision and we can’t stop people from know terrorist shitholes from legally entering the US.  Don’t like Trumps border policy, find a friendly judge to issue a stay.

1 judge should not be able to override or suspend an executive order. I don’t believe the USSC upheld any ruling made by a lone district court judge against trump, as an example, but the lower courts created havoc.

Seems like there ought to be at least 3 randomly selected federal judges to rule on executive orders.

[rjnwmill]

Let me assure you three clowns can operate as stupidly as one. Recently three in the fourth circuit decided attempted drug distribution convictions under state law are not useable to meet federal requirements necessary to classify a defendant as a career offender…as fentanyl deaths increase by an order of magnitude annually.

And after Obama’s policy priorities were widely rejected by voters and we got governance by pen and by phone, on balance, I’m not too distressed by slowing that practice.

Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long

[cardcrimson]

[quote quote=6041]Feel free to go massless. [/quote]

Protestants have been doing that for centuries. . . .

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