The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request by three House Republicans to revive a lawsuit that was filed after their paychecks were docked for violating mask requirements on the chamber floor that were in place in May of 2021.
Without any dissents, the court allowed a lower ruling to stand after it dismissed a constitutional challenge filed by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Ralph Norman, R-S.C.
The House mandate at the time fined lawmakers $500 for their first infraction of then Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s mask mandate and $2,500 for additional violations to be deducted from their yearly pay. Greene accumulated more than $100,000 in fines during the course of the mask rules, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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