Foreshadowing her call to defund the courts, Republican Georgia Congresswoman and evolutionary offramp Marjorie Taylor Greene and her House colleagues who believed they had free rein to defy Nancy Pelosi’s pandemic-era requirement to wear masks on the floor of the House got a swift kick in the teeth when the Supreme Court declined to hear their lawsuit on Tuesday, USA Today reports.
Beating a dead horse, Marge joined Kentucky’s Tom Massie, South Carolina’s Ralph Norman to take the case to the Supreme Court, further wasting time and taxpayer dollars, chomping at the bit to try to challenge the Speaker’s power one more time in another dog and pony show because she lost the case at every lower court level, with each court acknowledging the House’s authority to make its own rules.
Even current House leader, Preacher of the House Mike Johnson, agreed with the outcome, saying “this case is not about the wisdom of the rule or whether it was based on sound science,” but not recognizing that the lack of respect for authority and the rule of law is rampant in his caucus. Incidentally, Marge and the other were challenging a $500 fine each had been levied; they took this case to the Supreme Court because they did not think the rules applied to them, and it took tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to get them to pay $500.