U.S. Representative Beth Van Duyne and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are suing the CDC over mask requirements on planes and at airports.
A sign reading, 'masks required in this area,' is seen as travelers prepare to check-in for their Delta Airlines flight at the Miami International Airport on February 01, 2021 in Miami, Florida.
Van Duyne joined conservative activists with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and AG Paxton in suing the Centers for Disease Control to end the enforcement of federal mask mandates on planes and at airports."The argument here is that the CDC has certain powers given by federal law, given by Congress to it, and that what it has done in the area of airport safety, and specifically that mask requirements, goes beyond those boundaries," constitutional law attorney David Coale explained.
A day after the lawsuit was filed in Fort Worth district court, the FAA announced it has forwarded 80 new cases of air rage incidents to the FBI for possible prosecution.There have been many more, almost 6,500 reports since early last year, and in that broad category, many of the incidents involved passengers refusing to wear masks.Casanova is a member of the Texas Medical Association's COVID-19 Task Force Team.
He said that while the number of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are going down, we're still not in clear."In a closed airplane cabin, masks are still a very important part of mitigation," he said. "There is nowhere to go once the wheels lift off the runway. So I think there are areas that we need to continue to lean and rely on science, public health officials, physicians to make public health decisions.
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