POLL. Almost 2 in 3 Americans support their state and local government requiring the use of face masks / EFE
This Monday, Federal District Judge Robert Pratt issued an order that restricts the prohibition of mask mandates in school districts in the state of Iowa, by ensuring that the law can generate a high risk of contagion among the school population of the entity.
Because it is important?: The magistrate’s decision is not the first of its kind in the country. The masking mandates have generated endless debates in the national territory and have caused the intervention of justice. While on the one hand the school authorities are asked to make this an obligation, Republican officials dismiss the action.
- In Florida, for example, an appeal by Governor Ron DeSantis ended in a victory for the Republican over the state’s school districts.
- In your jurisdiction, parents will have the last word on whether or not their children will use the mask.
What do they say?: “The Court recognizes that issuing a TRO is an extreme remedy, however, if the drastic increase in the number of pediatric COVID-19 cases since the start of the school year in Iowa is an indication of what is to come, a remedy so extreme is necessary to guarantee that the children involved in this case do not suffer irreparable damage, ”said Judge Pratt.
- Last May, Governor Kim Reynolds signed legislation that prohibited the requirement of masks from school districts.
- Just three months later, the law was sued by a group of parents of children with disabilities and health problems.
Main source of the news: The Hill
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