A Loudoun County judge struck down the mask mandate imposed by the school board, immediately allowing students to attend class without masks.
LEESBURG, Virginia — A Loudoun County, Virginia, judge struck down the mask mandate imposed by the Loudoun County School Board Wednesday evening, immediately allowing students to attend class without masks.that saw the administration of Gov. Glenn Youngkin join forces with parents against the school district, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge James P.
Fisher asked LCSB if they intended to comply with the new law or challenge it in court, but the lawyer said they need time to get the “lay of the land.”Jones Day lawyer James Burnham, said in response that “They [LCSB] won’t even tell you if they’re willing to follow state law. … It is outrageous to suggest we should hold this over to see if the school board is going to defy state law.” Burnham previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and served in the Trump Justice Department.
The attorney for the AG’s office, Virginia Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson, agreed, saying that “serious prejudice [is] being inflicted on children” that imposes “daily irreparable harm.” Ferguson previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “The burdens of the pandemic fall almost entirely on the youngest in our society,” and masks are a well-documented burden with “seemingly little scientific evidence” that they reduce the spread of the coronavirus, Burnham said.
Also at issue was Virginia law S.B. 1303, a law passed by the Virginia General Assembly during the pandemic “in response to the recalcitrance of school boards like Loudoun County,” to require school boards to “offer in-person instruction to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary and secondary school for at least the minimum number of required instructional hours.
One would think, Ferguson added, that the “school would treat them like children, not pawns in a political scheme.”
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