Three House Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) of violating the Constitution when their pay was docked for refusing to wear face coverings on the House floor earlier this year.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Ralph Norman of South Carolina. The three were each fined $500 for ignoring a rule mandating masks on the House floor. The House voted to impose fines for noncompliance with mask rules in a party-line vote in early January. The money was withheld from their paychecks, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Nancy Pelosi had said in May that masks would continue to be required for members and staff until everyone was vaccinated. The rules were relaxed in June when the Office of Attending Physician said that masks would be mandatory for those who were not fully vaccinated, but not for those who had been vaccinated.
During an interview Tuesday on “War Room”, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told host Steve Bannon, “It is beyond dysfunctional. Congress is broken. Congress is not only failing you people at home, Congress is trying to destroy your lives.”
“They fined us; myself, Thomas Massie, Ralph Norman, and several others– for not wearing masks on the House floor, and I gotta tell you, what a hypocrisy it is. The queen of the House of hypocrites is Nancy Pelosi,” Rep. Greene said.
“She fined us for not wearing masks, when in fact, she herself, was sitting up there without a mask on the exact same day. And so, we filed a federal lawsuit. We are suing Nancy Pelosi, and the reason why we are suing her is because she mistreats us in the House of Representatives the same way you are mistreated at home,” she explained. Continued Below
“We want to do this so you can have courage at home to stand up against mask mandates and to stand up against anyone telling you [that] you have to take a vaccine that is not FDA approved, and it is not their decision. It’s your decision what you do with your body,” the Georgia congresswoman insisted.
“That’s why we’re doing this. Go to SpeakerMaskHole.com, because that’s what she is,” Rep. Greene said.
“She’s a ‘maskhole’. And please check it out,” she added. Video Below
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s remarks:
.@mtgreenee announces federal lawsuit challenging Constitutional grounds of Pelosi's House mask mandate, fines:
"The same day that I received a fine for not wearing a mask, the Speaker of the House was on the floor— not wearing a mask. So where's her fine?" pic.twitter.com/FvFasRaS4h
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) July 27, 2021
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Rep. Greene also tweeted:
We’re suing @SpeakerPelosi.https://t.co/eliMz0snQz pic.twitter.com/EbjvHGr60Y
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 27, 2021
I believe in freedom.
I support the People.
They have the right to choose to wear a mask or not, and to vaccinate or not.
The perpetual pandemic state is only useful to control the public through fear, not save lives.#WeWillNotComply
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 28, 2021
Look at this maskless moron not social distancing while calling someone a moron for rejecting her mask mandate.#HouseOfHypocrites https://t.co/c9gaehhyaf
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 28, 2021
Yesterday, my colleagues & I filed our lawsuit against @SpeakerPelosi over her unconstitutional mask mandate.
Today, she reinstated it.
Americans are sick & tired of being political pawns.
We’re fighting to stop it, that’s why we’re suing Pelosi.https://t.co/eliMz0snQz
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 28, 2021
The Senate isn’t parading around with paper napkins and jock straps on their faces even though they are “the oldest in American history” with the avg age being 63.@SpeakerPelosi is way older than that. She’s somewhere close to 90. Older than dirt.
And destroying our country.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 28, 2021
He also said that his guidance is based on two studies from the CDC that he hasn’t even read & they arent published yet.
Dan Crenshaw let him know one is a study from India that had been rejected in peer review.
Cont’d..
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 28, 2021
He also said to me that obesity is a high risk factor & people should eat well & exercise to protect themselves from covid, but has never advised us to do that in order to protect ourselves from covid.
Cont’d..
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 28, 2021
In other words, Dr Monahan is just another Pelosi puppet and is guilty of medical malpractice.
After hearing this bullshit, every single Republican should refuse to wear masks.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 28, 2021
Democrat @TimRyan is on the House floor whining about Republicans not wearing masks.
He was just walking around the hallways today with NO mask on!
What a hypocrite and a liar!
They learn it from their Queen. #HouseOfHypocrites
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 28, 2021
