INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) – Add Indiana to the list of states suing to end the mask mandate on airplanes and city buses.
AG Todd Rokita yesterday joined 20 other states in a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s order that will keep people masked up through April 18th.
The suit says the ongoing order is an abuse of federal emergency powers.
The nation’s airlines and one union representing some Southwest Airlines workers are also pushing to end the mask mandate. Neither the CDC nor the TSA are commenting on the lawsuit.
AG Todd Rokita’s office released the following:
Attorney General Todd Rokita today announced a multistate lawsuit against several federal agencies and officials to force them to abandon illegal and unconstitutional mask mandates for travelers.
“Despite their repeated defeats in courts of law,” Attorney General Rokita said, “power-obsessed leftists continue trying to impose federal mask and vaccine mandates. Here in Indiana, we continue fighting for American liberty at every turn.”
With this lawsuit, Indiana and the 20 other states take aim at one of the remaining vestiges of federal overreach undertaken in the name of COVID-19 mitigation.
“There’s no good reason the feds should mandate masks at public transportation hubs and on commercial planes, buses, trains, ships and other vehicles,” Attorney General Rokita said. “This rule belongs in the same ash heap to which we have consigned the other overreaching measures we have successfully challenged.”