Thu Apr 21, 2022 – 12:53 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration’s Department of Justice has filed an appeal seeking to overturn a federal judge’s Monday ruling which struck down the CDC mask mandate for public transportation.
The federal agency filed its appeal to overturn the ruling following a Wednesday statement from the CDC arguing that the mask mandate was still necessary for “protecting the public health of our nation.”
The DOJ had previously signaled in a Tuesday press release that it would challenge the decision if the CDC continued to assert that the mask mandate “remains necessary for public health.”
The U.S. Department of Justice said it’s appealing the decision by a federal judge that voided the mask mandate for public transportation.https://t.co/rH8IW2KI8F
— NPR (@NPR) April 20, 2022
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The decision the Justice Department is seeking to reverse was handed down April 18 by Florida-based U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a Trump-appointee who previously clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
In her 59-page ruling, Mizelle argued that the CDC lacked the authority to impose
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