A Long Island judge ruled against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s controversial mask mandate on Monday — in a move that could lead to the lifting of similar orders in schools across the state, NY Post reported.
Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Thomas Rademaker threw out a Nov. 24 rule issued by Health Commissioner Mary Bassett that led Hochul to order businesses without mandatory vaccination policies to require that all workers, customers and guests wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Thomas Rademaker said the rule amounted to “a law that was promulgated and enacted unlawfully by an Executive branch state agency, and therefore void and unenforceable as a matter of law.”
And as a result, Rademaker said, the mask mandate Hochul announced on Dec. 10 “must fail as violative of the State Administrative Procedure Act.”
“While the intentions of Commissioner Bassett and Governor Hochul appear to be well aimed squarely at doing what they believe is right to protect the citizens of New York State, they must take their case to the State Legislature,” he wrote.
Now let her be prosecuted and sent to jail
Wow – baruch Hashem our communist state still has some justices who protect the rights of citizens!
Masks should be mandated, as should vaccines. What a letdown.
If you want to wear a mask, no one is stopping you.
If you want to get vaccinated, no one is stopping you.
Ah, but you don’t get to force it on others anymore! There’s the “letdown,” I suppose.
Nobody is stopping you from masks or vaccines. Why would this upset you?
Does this law apply to NYC as well? What about NYC public transit, like the trains and buses?
I never wear a mask on the train
Let’s just have a civil war already, I’m tired of living in the same country as anti-maskers.
…you’d like to have a civil war, which will necessarily involve a lot of deaths, because people don’t want to wear masks, which even on the most generous interpretation prevent at most a few deaths. Makes a lot of sense, huh?
And shows the true agenda of people like you who demand mask mandates. Saving lives? Nah, it’s all about bending other people to your will, and wishing for lots of deaths if they won’t. Feh.
Masks shouldn’t be mandated anymore for those who don’t want to go out dont