Wall Decries TSA’s Announcement
Extending Mask Mandate to Jan. 18

Aug. 17, 2021

By LUCAS WALL

The Biden Administration’s decision to extend the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate from Sept. 13 to Jan. 18 continues its pattern of flouting the Constitution, laws, and regulations when it comes to pandemic orders not authorized by Congress. Today’s decision is a terrible insult to the tens of millions of Americans such as myself who can’t medically tolerate wearing masks and therefore have been banned from using any form of public transportation in America.

Thankfully there are four lawsuits in federal courts seeking to strike down the FTMM as an abuse of executive power. Given the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s defeats in every pandemic case so far dealing with its illegal Eviction Moratorium and onerous rules for resuming cruises, I am confident my challenge to the mask mandate will prevail. It will take court action to ensure Americans will no longer have to give up their right to breathe freely as a condition of utilizing any mode of public transportation.

President Biden said in September that the federal government has no constitutional authority to require face coverings. Yet just like with CDC’s Eviction Moratorium earlier this month, he did it anyway – and is now trying to defend his illegal orders in court. Biden’s constant actions in violation of his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution must be restrained by the judiciary.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed Aug. 9 an 88-page brief in Wall v. CDC arguing the FTMM and International Traveler Testing Requirement should be upheld because Congress authorized CDC to adopt regulations that are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into United States or from one state to another – an argument already rejected by five federal courts plus the U.S. Supreme Court in other pandemic cases.

Plaintiff Lucas Wall, 44, of Washington, D.C., asserts the government’s arguments trying to save the mask mandate and testing requirement issued by CDC and enforced by TSA are feeble given the huge number of constitutional provisions, federal laws, and regulations these rules ignore.

I will file counter-arguments tomorrow or Thursday, and hope oral argument will be set for later this month or in early September.

Learn more about Wall v. CDC and the companion case Wall v. Southwest Airlines (U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida): www.lucas.travel/category/mask-lawsuits

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