Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the previous speaker of the House, enforced the mask requirement, which three House Republicans have bravely challenged. They are currently pursuing justice from the US Supreme Court.
Reps. Ralph Norman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massie filed a lawsuit against Pelosi. What did they do wrong? entering the House floor without wearing a mask. Learn the reason behind their counterattack against these $500 penalties.
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According to the parliamentarians, the wage deductions are against the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. “Which prohibits salary adjustments for members of Congress from taking effect until after the next election,” according to The Hill.
“When we filed this lawsuit against Pelosi’s mask mandate, I said we would take it to the Supreme Court if necessary, and that is what it has finally come to,” Massie wrote.
House Republicans file a case, but lower courts reject it; they now resort to the Supreme Court.
According to The Hill:
The Speech and Debate Clause provides defendants with constitutional protection, as upheld by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. protected from legal action and inquiries about the legislation they have drafted.
“The D.C. Circuit’s opinion ultimately places no limits on Speech or Debate Immunity,” The lawyers for the Republican legislators wrote in their Supreme Court petition. “To let the D.C. Circuit’s opinion stand would be to render the Twenty-Seventh Amendment non-justiciable in violation of this Court and the D.C. Circuit’s own precedents and to open the floodgates to unfathomable discipline.”
“The House Rules, under this Doctrine, could impose physical punishment, flogging, or even more medieval forms of punishment, upon members and, under the D.C. Circuit’s precedent, no judicial remedy would be available, the Eighth Amendment notwithstanding,” the petition continued.
House Democrats made a statement in 2020 when they enacted a law requiring mask use. They went one step farther and instituted sanctions to discourage more infractions. The penalties were quite clear: $500 for the initial infraction and a massive $2,500 for any additional infractions. There is a cost associated with breaking the law; are you willing to pay it?
Massie, Greene, and Norman were among the Republicans punished for violating the regulation. They acknowledged breaking the requirement in their appeal, which was submitted on Monday. They are now pleading with the judges to examine their appeal and determine whether or not their wage deductions were lawful.
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The Daily Caller also mentioned:
“In addition to concerns about pay increases, the Founders were also greatly concerned that diminishing congressional pay could be used to pressure Members from exercising independent judgment, which could prevent qualified men of modest means from serving in the new national legislature,” In their petition, the delegates wrote.
“[F]inancial retaliation against members of Congress is a tool by which Members’ independence can be degraded,” they wrote. “It is crucial that the Twenty-Seventh Amendment be given effect, lest there be another means by which members of Congress are subjected to retaliation for their decision to act in accordance with the desires of their district rather than the desires of the Speaker of the House.”
In June, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Pelosi and the other listed defendants, former House Sergeant at Arms William Walker and House Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor, are immune from the case under the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution.
