Nancy Pelosi is facing long overdue accountability.
Democrats won’t be happy.
And Nancy Pelosi walked into a trap at the Supreme Court that will have you jumping for joy.
As Liberal Hack Watch reports:
Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie announced he and his fellow Republicans, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ralph Norman, filed a petition with the Supreme Court to take up their challenge to fines Nancy Pelosi imposed upon them when she was speaker of the House and mandated all members of Congress wear masks.
The petition argued that Pelosi’s fines put members in a position where they would be forced to make decisions based on how it would financially impact them.
“In addition to concerns about pay increases, the Founders were also greatly concerned that diminishing congressional pay could be used to pressure Members from exercising independent judgment, which could prevent qualified men of modest means from serving in the new national legislature,” the petition argued.
The Republicans even argued that Pelosi being allowed to fine members of Congress could lead to sanctions that violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
“The House Rules, under this Doctrine, could impose physical punishment, flogging, or even more medieval forms of punishment, upon members and, under the D.C. Circuit’s precedent, no judicial remedy would be available, the Eighth Amendment notwithstanding,” the Republicans’ petition added.
Finally, the petition stated that the fines ran afoul of the 27th Amendment’s mandate that any change to members’ pay come after the next election due to the fact that Pelosi fined members for violating the mask mandate in real time.
“[F]inancial retaliation against members of Congress is a tool by which Members’ independence can be degraded,” the petition continued. “It is crucial that the Twenty-Seventh Amendment be given effect, lest there be another means by which members of Congress are subjected to retaliation for their decision to act in accordance with the desires of their district rather than the desires of the Speaker of the House.”
Pelosi imposed the mask mandate as part of the hysteria that Democrats whipped up around the COVID pandemic.
There was never any scientific evidence showing that mask mandates did anything to slow the spread of COVID.
Liberal elites like Pelosi seized on COVID as a means of defeating Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
Democrats supporting lockdowns and mask mandates served two purposes.
First, it robbed Trump of his greatest political strength which was the booming economy that Trump’s economic policies caused.
Trump’s theory of the case was that deregulation, a supercharged American energy sector and restrictive immigration policies would create a tight labor market that boosted wages without causing inflation.
The numbers proved Trump correct as gas was $2.39 a gallon when Trump left office and inflation was under two percent.
Democrat lockdowns crushed the economy.
And the mask mandates allowed Democrats to falsely claim Trump ignored COVID and let it spread because he wanted an open economy and no restrictions.
Again, the science showed Trump was right as even COVID zealots like CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen later admitted cloth masks were just “expensive facial decorations.”
The Supreme Court agreeing to take up this case would be a chance for members of Congress to hold Pelosi accountable for COVID authoritarianism.