The Biden administration’s Justice Department is ready to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that has overturned the public transportation and airline mask mandate only if the CDC determines that extending the mandate is needed, NPR reports. 

Beside further exacerbating the divide between conservatives and liberals over COVID-19 mask mandates and vaccinations, such an appeal could hamper future CDC mandates for potentially more dangerous health crises if the Supreme Court were to set a precedent by upholding the federal judge’s decision, Lindsay Wiley, professor of public health law at the University of California, Los Angeles told NPR’s Morning Edition. 

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