Republican congressman Ralph Norman, of South Carolina, who is suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over fines for not wearing masks during a vote on the U.S. House floor, now has COVID, ABC News reported Thursday citing an announcement the lawmaker made on Twitter
Norman, who says he is fully vaccinated, tweeted that he started feeling sick on Thursday before testing positive for the virus. He will be in quarantine for 10 days, according to the report.
As ABC News points out, Norman is part of a federal lawsuit against Pelosi over a mandate demands lawmakers wear masks while on the House floor.
Norman, along with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky sued Pelosi last week, claiming that their $500 fines — issued because they went maskless during a May vote — are unconstitutional and should be rescinded.
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“The masking requirement was an attempt to prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, medicine, and science, despite a deep divide over these issues of opinion,” lawyers for the members wrote. “It has been used to force Plaintiffs and other members of the minority party to be instruments for fostering public adherence to this ideological point of view that Plaintiffs find unacceptable,” they added.
Read the entire report on ABC News.
