Pelosi Immune From GOP Members’ Lawsuit Over House Mask Mandate

Republican lawmakers who sued then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for fines incurred from the House floor’s Covid-19 mask mandate lost their appeal to the D.C. Circuit on Friday.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) challenged the constitutionality of the mandate, but their lawsuit was dismissed by a district court last year. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed that dismissal, holding that the US Constitution’s speech and debate clause barred the members’ suit.

A few months after the mandate took effect, the three GOP members protested the resolution by ...