Missouri attorney general sues to block mask mandates issued by public school districts

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Source: Kansas City Star




Updated August 24, 2021 05:21 PM



Attorney General Eric Schmitt is seeking to block Missouri school districts from mandating masks for students and teachers as the state continues to struggle with a wave of COVID-19 cases.

Schmitt filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Columbia Public Schools arguing the district’s mandate is “arbitrary and capricious,” a charge he has leveled against mask orders in Kansas City and St. Louis. The class action suit, in Boone County Circuit Court, goes beyond the local district, however, and asks the court to strike down district mask directives statewide.

The lawsuit marks an extraordinary escalation in the war against mask rules being waged by the Republican attorney general and U.S. Senate candidate. Schmitt has already sued Kansas City, Jackson County and other localities, but in filing a class action suit, he is effectively taking the legal fight to dozens of school districts.


Most districts in the immediate Kansas City region are mandating masks for everyone this fall. On the outskirts of the metro, such as in Cass County, some smaller districts have kept them optional. On the Kansas side in Johnson County, districts are requiring everyone to wear masks, except for Spring Hill, which is requiring them only for younger students....................





Read more: https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article253706758.html

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Schools are trying to protect the kids,while Repugs are doing their best to make them sick or to kill them.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Arrest him for mass murder

[patphil]

21. Deliberate, pre-meditated murder.

He's killing residents of his state for political purposes.

[madaboutharry]

2. What is wrong with these people?

For the life of me, I do not get it. Sorry, it makes no F ***ing sense to me.

[Rebl2]

6. He thinks

people should be able to choose if their child wears a mask (since when is he pro choice.) A local anchor interviewed him and he went on about how children don’t get as sick and don’t really spread it to other people. Tell that to parents who have children in the ICU with Covid at local hospitals. He also said no children under 10 have died from Covid! Where the hell has he been! Oh wait a minute. I know. He’s running for US senate.

[patphil]

22. CDC data as of August 18th had 430 children age 18 and under dying from the covid virus.

source:

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3

[Deuxcents]

7. I'm with you.. I can't understand

[PSPS]

14. Republicans put masks into the culture wars. This is simply MAGA posturing. Dead bodies don't matter

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Twitter reply:

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[Botany]

4. Why do they want the disease to keep spreading?

"Attorney General Eric Schmitt is seeking to block Missouri school districts from mandating masks."

They know that masks and vaccines work in helping to contain the C-19 virus and yet they they fight it.

[PSPS]

15. They see it as a way of vindicating/pleasing trump and winning in '22

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. Are my Missouri tax dollars paying for these lawsuits?

Have we not lost enough Missourians yet? I am really starting to hate these guys.

[Rebl2]

8. Absolutely they are!

[Deuxcents]

9. No mask mandates

Please send the National Guard medics.. FEMA.. and anyone else to put their lives on the line for us.. this is insane

[Diamond_Dog]

10. For the life of me,

I just don’t get it!

Why are they all freaking out over kids in school wearing a piece of cloth over their nose and mouth? Such a simple thing that is scientifically proven to reduce likelihood of catching a deadly virus, and they fight it tooth and nail?? I will never understand Republicans!

[PSPS]

16. Because trump made masks part of the eternal republican culture war. Must please the MAGA

[bucolic_frolic]

11. These GQP Nazis think dictatorship - theirs - is a good idea

They never ask the public. They never ask health authorities. School districts all over the country are defying no mask orders, and these clowns still don't have a clue!

[Gore1FL]

12. I sent another message asking hi to resign for being an embarrassing piece of shit.

I doubt much will come of it.

[elleng]

13. arguing the district's mandate is "arbitrary and capricious,"

[ScratchCat]

17. What they are doing is creating this false reality for political purposes

where those "liberals" are making your kids wear masks to punish their parents for voting for Trump. This is what this is all about. All these suits and bans are either by Trumphumpers or Republicans running for some office with the purpose of running on "I was against you being forced to wear a mask by the Libs!!" I know, it makes no sense and a mounting death toll is going to end their careers, but its what they are going with. This is the political hill some have chosen to die on.

[MrModerate]

20. They should die faster. n/t

[zanana1]

24. So they're ready to die for politics.

Not honorably, like heroes who die in battle or defending the innocent,but for the right to piss off liberals for spite.

[Historic NY]

18. Imagine if the Board of Heath did mandate moving the cesspool from around the school well,

in the 19th century. WTF is wrong with these people.

[MrModerate]

19. Yes, Virginia, the Missouri Attorney General (R-Of Course) wants you dead.

[zanana1]

23. Why do they want to kill people?

I just don't understand the thought process that goes into this.

[Turbineguy]

25. There's no point

in electing republicans if they refuse to kill you.

[Martin68]

26. A better headline might be: "Missouri attorney general sues to murder school children."