Finally, 441 days after the CDC implemented a federal mask mandate for public transportation,

a federal judge has struck down the stupid rule which was set to expire yesterday before

the bureaucrats decided to extend it for another two weeks.

Two weeks, where have we heard that one before?

District Court Judge Catherine Kimball, Miselle, ruled that the extended mandate, quote,

exceeded the CDC's statutory authority, improperly invoked the good cause exception to notice

and comment rulemaking and failed to adequately explain its decisions.

I actually got a text from a friend of mine when this came out.

He was 30,000 feet traveling on a flight and he said, wow, you're not going to believe

it.

The captain just came over the loudspeaker and said that the mask rule is no longer an

effect and almost everyone took their masks off.

Other people got videos of this happening on flights around the country.

Take a listen.

Give immediately and everybody is very, very excited about this because this judge found

that the good cause exception did not hold here.

The good cause exception is a provision of the Administrative Procedures Act that allows

DC bureaucrats to break the rules for rulemaking when compliance would be quote, impracticable,

unnecessary or contrary to the public interest.

So if an emergency required an agency to act with haste, it would be permitted to cut

corners, but we're more than a year and a half into this nonsense.

If there ever was an emergency that permitted this kind of power grab, we are certainly

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