DeSantis Determined to Put Kids in Danger, Fights Court Mask Mandate Ruling

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DeSantis still fights masks—despite a COVID surge, court loss, expert advice, and declining popularity at home. It isn't even political now, it seems more a crusade. Or a small man who won't admit he was wrong.
DeSantis Determined to Put Kids in Danger, Fights Court Mask Mandate Ruling
After a judge ruled that the Florida governor's mask mandate ban was unconstitutional, Ron DeSantis is appealing.
rollingstone.com
4:31 PM · Sep 3, 2021

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-appeal-court-mask-mandate-ruling-florida-schools-1220477/

Even though a judge ruled against his school mask mandate ban last week, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is not giving up his dream of letting kids spread the virus to their classmates unmasked.

DeSantis filed an appeal Thursday to place a hold on a ruling by a Leon County circuit judge, who declared in a written judgment that the governor did not have the constitutional authority to ban mask mandates.

DeSantis had cited Florida’s Parents’ Bill of Rights law — controversial legislation implemented this year that grants parents rights to make decisions about their children’s education, upbringing, and health care — to justify an executive order in July banning school mask mandates in the state. But Circuit Judge John C. Cooper said last Friday that any order from the governor or a state agency that “bans under all circumstances a face mask mandate for school children without a parental opt out does not meet constitutional muster.” A mask mandate ban, the judge said, should be exempted from the Parents’ Bill of Rights because the law allows for exclusions in cases of limited government actions designed to protect public health.

DeSantis’s filing on Thursday stated that it should trigger an “automatic stay pending review” of Cooper’s decision, but attorneys representing parents who support mask mandates filed an emergency notice to vacate the stay.

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1. He is nuts. Believes his mask policy is the basis for seeking the GQP nomination.