{"id":43857,"date":"2022-01-18T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43857"},"modified":"2022-01-18T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T05:43:08","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-bid-to-block-mask-mandate-on-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43857","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court rejects bid to block mask mandate on airplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to block a federal mask mandate for air travel.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency application was filed by a father on behalf of himself and his 4-year-old autistic son, both of whom claim to be medically incapable of wearing masks for extended periods.<\/p>\n<p>Their request was filed to Justice\u00a0Neil Gorsuch, who handles emergency applications arising in several Western states, and he referred the matter to the full court. The justices denied the request without comment or noted dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the father-son challengers was another man, Lucas Wall, who has sought to raise money and publicity from his legal efforts targeting the federal transportation mask mandate.\u00a0Chief Justice John Roberts last month unilaterally rejected a separate challenge filed by the group.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s move comes less than a week after the justices voted 6-3 to block a vaccine-or-test mandate for most employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-travel","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43858,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43857\/revisions\/43858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}