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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'It's utter nonsense':FL Rep. Sabatini files lawsuit alleging...mask ordinance is unconstitutional
Its utter nonsense: Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini files lawsuit alleging Orange County mask ordinance is unconstitutional
By: Sarah Wilson, WFTV.com
Updated: June 22, 2020 - 5:24 PM
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. A local lawmaker and Orange County businessman filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that the executive order requiring Orange County residents to wear face masks to slow the spread of COVID-19 is unconstitutional and infringes on residents rights.
Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings put the mask order into effect as of Saturday. The order states that residents must wear masks in public, except in certain circumstances which are outlined here.
On Monday, COVID-19 cases in the county hit 5,000 with more than 100,000 positive cases reported in the state.
We have a loud and unapologetic message that we have to send to the elected officials of Orange County, and that is this: that you have to follow the law and follow the constitution and not invade the private rights of people, Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini said in a news conference Monday.
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'It's utter nonsense':FL Rep. Sabatini files lawsuit alleging...mask ordinance is unconstitutional (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2020
OP
If wearing a mask is unconstitutional, then so is wearing any clothing at all.
LonePirate
Jun 2020
#9
panader0
(25,816 posts)1. is he upset about the Florida law requiring seat belts to be used?
The Constitution doesn't say a word about seat belts.
coti
(4,612 posts)2. How about telling people they have to wear pants?
How is this qualitatively any different?
panader0
(25,816 posts)3. There's nothing in the Constitution about having to wear pants!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)4. Traffic lights and stop-signs... also unconstitutional?
Arkansas Granny
(31,529 posts)7. Not to mention speed limits.
intrepidity
(7,336 posts)5. Well, he's wrong nt
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)6. We Had A Grandstanding Idiot In Illinois
He sued Pritzker because it was unconstitutional to tell people they had to stay at home.
He comes from a district that is huge in area, because it's so rural. Bug in area, small on brains.
He actually got a downstate judge to grant a stay in the governor's order.
But,........
It applied only to him.
The guy sued so he wouldn't have to stay at home, the stay only applied to him, and there was nowhere to go because the order still applied to everybody else & businesses.
Grandstanding buffoon, like this punk in Florida.
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)8. He should look at the bright side.
He doesn't have to wear a helmet when he rides his motorcycle.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)9. If wearing a mask is unconstitutional, then so is wearing any clothing at all.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)10. Residents: please wear masks voluntarily
Save your state! And yourselves
Nevilledog
(51,197 posts)11. Okay then... Get out of people's bedrooms and out of women's uteruses.
"you have to follow the law and follow the constitution and not invade the private rights of people