U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R) supports a federal court judge’s decision this April striking down President Joe Biden’s mask mandate for airplanes and other public transportation.

U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Florida struck down the mandate on April 18th, explaining in her ruling that the mandate did not apply to the 1944 statute that gives the federal government the authority to issue regulations concerning “sanitation” in effort to combat communicable diseases. Previous lawsuits against the mandate failed in front of other district courts and the Supreme Court. Sen. Grassley tells KCII that the Senate voted 57-40 this March to nix the requirement, which he believes won’t be considered in the House, “I think it does bring to attention though, that in a lot of things that the administration thinks that they have the authority to do. A judge says they don’t have the authority to do it and so they should seek that sort of approval from the Congress of the United States instead of doing it themselves as the President of the United States.”

Judge Mizelle was confirmed to the court in 2020 at 33 years old. At that time the American Bar Association wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she did not meet the minimum standard of experience necessary to be a federal trial judge, and that she had not tried a civil or criminal case since her admission to practice law in 2012. You can hear more from Grassley during Tuesday’s Halcyon House Washington Page on air and at kciiradio.com.