WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021.
The justices did not comment on leaving in place $500 fines issued in May 2021 to U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ralph Norman of South Carolina.
Remember come election season that these people are wasting the government’s time with this frivolous appeal, trying to make a statement, over a sum of money that amounts to less than 0.3% of their nominal annual salary.
I guarantee that, aside from any court filing costs, no money changed hands. There are plenty of angry political hacks that have law degrees who would take this on for free just to own the libs.
It’s all self aggrandizing bullshit. Pretty much the entire system is designed around making very unimportant people feel important. And i mean that all the way down to the local courts.
You’ve just hit the button, that is precisely why the US was created. There wasn’t some British threat, taxation wasn’t higher, and citizens of the colonies had more representation in Parliament than people living in the UK. In short, it was all a lot of propaganda that we still spout today and what people really wanted was to be greedy and have all the power themselves.
In her defense, MTG always looks like she’s wearing a mask. Curious to know whose face she’s wearing like Dwight Shrute in that one episode of The Office…
How do these people all look so evil and folks actually think they look decent/civil. She radiates evil to the point you could show me a double-blind cross-section of pols and I could almost certainly tell who’s on the right haha
Which begs the question, can you appeal anything to the Supreme Court? And either way, how did it get that far that an appellate court didn’t stay the lower courts ruling? How does that work?
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