U.S. Justice Department Says It Will Appeal the Lifting of the Travel Mask Mandate
byDaniel McCarthy/
It might be time to pump the brakes on travel's full return to normal.
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) on Wednesday said that it will appeal the ruling by a federal judge that lifted the mask mandate for public transportation.
司法部在本周早些时候表示,只有在疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)要求的情况下,这才能提出上诉,这正是周三发生的事情。
CDC要求司法部对该裁决提出上诉,以“在上周进行的评估之外保护疾病预防控制中心的公共卫生局”。
“It is CDC’s continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the public health.CDC will continue to monitor public health conditions to determine whether such an order remains necessary. CDC believes this is a lawful order, well within CDC’s legal authority to protect public health,” it said in a statement.
The mask mandate, after a number of extensions, was slated to expire after May 3直到法官在星期一裁决. In the ruling, the judge wrote that the mandate exceeded the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) authority and that because of that it is “not in accordance with the law.”
Shortly after the judge’s ruling, the White House said it would no longer enforce it while it is under review, which meant that the order was no longer in effect, exceptat some airports that chose to keep the mandate in place. Individual airlines followed the news by宣布他们将自己的要求that matched the CDC’s and TSA’s rules.
Now, with the news on Wednesday, the future of the mandate, and the timing of the appeal by the DOJ, remains unclear. The DOJ has not yet asked the court to block the judge’s order, so the mandate will not come back into place despite the appeal.
The White House, on Wednesday, cited the rise in cases for its decision to appeal through the DOJ, but also said that the appeal was partly made because it wanted “to preserve that authority for the CDC in the future.”
For more on the mask mandate and how travel advisors can deal with it, read whatTMR’s Paul Ruden wrote about Advising Clients in a Maskless World.