Thu Jan 19, 2023 – 3:00 pm ESTThu Jan 19, 2023 – 3:18 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday asked an appeals panel for the 11th District Court to reverse a decision that overruled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) travel mask mandate in response to a lawsuit.
Many of the arguments dealt with the speed at which the CDC’s mandate was enacted, Reuters reported. Brian Springer, a lawyer for the DOJ, argued that the mandate, which the CDC put in place in the first days of the Biden administration in January 2021 without a public comment session as required by the Federal Provisions Act, was necessary for public health.
According to Springer, the mandate going into effect immediately was necessary “to prevent the possible infections and deaths that could result if people didn’t do the simple thing of just putting on a mask while they were traveling.”
A lawyer for the DOJ also claimed that “[w]earing a mask was one of the most modest and most effective means available in early 2021 to combat the spread of COVID-19 and to allow air travel to resume
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