If Your Time is short Bills introduced in Congress since 2018 banning protesters from wearing masks have stalled or failed. Many states have decades-old mask bans designed to thwart the Ku Klux Klan.

Rep. Timothy Horrigan, D-Durham, argued against the bill, noting that more than 1.2 million people died in the U.S. due to COVID-19.

Gov. Kathy Hochul's last-minute push to crack down on public mask-wearing seems to be on the skids in the state legislature as she makes virtually no effort to publicly advocate for the issue.

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The Dinowitz/Skoufis mask bill is backed by the NAACP and Anti-Defamation League. Hochul quickly called for action on a mask ban after a masked man threatened Jewish subway riders last year.

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Griffin Borden, 4, of Emmaus prepares to receive his COVID-19 vaccination Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at the Lehigh Valley Health Network’s COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic in Whitehall.

Far from “protecting our communities,” as Del. Boafo claimed, the bill would discourage people from wearing masks at a time when rates of the flu, COVID, RSV, H5N1 and other respiratory ...

On Friday, Sen. Carl Bjerke, R-Couer D’Alene, spoke in support of the bill, decrying “ridiculous” parts of mask mandates during COVID-19.

Garden City Mayor John Evans, who said he opposed COVID-19 mask mandates and stay-home orders, spoke in opposition to the bill Wednesday. Evans said the bill is so absolute it makes him nervous.

Idaho bill proposed to ban government mask mandates by cities, schools, public health districts, and others following COVID-19 pandemic.

The bill would make it a petty disorderly persons offense for people to congregate in public while wearing masks or obscuring their faces in some way to conceal their identity. There would be a ...