GOP Members’ Suit Against Pelosi Over House Mask Mandate Tossed

Republican lawmakers who sued Speaker Nancy Pelosi over a mask mandate on the House floor and fines incurred for violating the mandate, had their suit dismissed by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), said they were fined for entering the House to vote without wearing masks in May 2021. The representatives said they wanted to engage in a “protest against the double standard being enforced,” and to demonstrate “the well-founded beliefs " they shared that mask wearing “is not scientifically based” and “not necessary for the ...