A man who was thrown out of a Florida airport asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to freeze the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "unconstitutional" mask requirements for transportation.
Lucas Wall, a Washington, D.C., man who has been living with his mother in Florida, appealed to the court in a complaint that names the CDC, President Joe Biden, and several other federal agencies as defendants. Wall wrote that the mandate violates his freedom to travel, his right to due process, and states' rights to decide their own mask requirements. He asked that the court issue an emergency injunction overriding the CDC's order.
Wall pointed to other court orders against other government coronavirus mandates, decisions to allow large church gatherings chief among them, and said that his desire to travel mask-free was no less important.
"This Court has issued at least five emergency injunctive orders in the past seven months unequivocally holding that governments may not restrict First Amendment rights even in the name of fighting a pandemic," Wall wrote, asking the court to find that other constitutional rights also "can’t be suspended by the federal defendants because of COVID-19."
