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Pennsylvania judge boots 5 Dems from school board over mask mandate
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A Pennsylvania judge ordered five school board members who voted at the beginning of the school year to make masks mandatory to be immediately removed from office.
The five removed were all the Democrats. The lawyer representing them, Kenneth Roos from Wisler Pearlstine, LLP, said they submitted a motion for reconsideration of Judge William Mahon's order Tuesday night. The group anticipated it would be accepted for filing Wednesday morning.The board opted to continue requiring masks after Pennsylvania's state of emergency first ended in June 2021. It kept the decision in place two months after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared the mandate unconstitutional in December.
The decision from the Court of Common Pleas "states that the removal of the board members named in the petition was a ‘procedural result’ and does not address any of the allegations made in the complaint" a statement from Superintendent Dr. Robert Sokolowski reads. "Special counsel to the district is in the process of preparing a substantive response on behalf of those school board members named in the petition."