{"id":1418605,"date":"2022-04-04T17:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418605"},"modified":"2022-04-04T17:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:44:49","slug":"pennsylvania-judge-reinstates-five-democrat-school-board-members-after-removal-over-mask-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-judge-reinstates-five-democrat-school-board-members-after-removal-over-mask-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Judge Reinstates Five Democrat School Board Members After Removal over Mask Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-judge-reinstates-five-democrat-school-board-members-after-removal-over-mask-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418605&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">All five Democrat members of Pennsylvania\u2019s West Chester Area School District\u2019s (WCASD) board have been <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/chester-county-judge-reinstates-5-west-chester-school-board-members\/\">reinstated<\/a> by a judge after having been removed as a result of voting to mandate masks.<\/p>\n<p>The five Democrats make up the majority of WCASD\u2019s nine-member school board, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/pennsylvania-judge-boots-school-board-members-mask-mandate\">voted<\/a> to maintain the district\u2019s mask mandate after the Pennsylvania legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlightpa.org\/news\/2021\/06\/pa-coronavirus-disaster-declaration-terminated-legislature\/\">ended<\/a> the Keystone State\u2019s emergency declaration and the state\u2019s Supreme Court declared the mandate unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Parents in the district, led by Beth Ann Rosica, petitioned for the Democrats\u2019 removal, which was granted by Judge William Mahon in the Chester County Court of Common Pleas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rosica argued that the board did not have the authority to mandate masks after those actions by the legislature and the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The members\u2019 immediate removal was a \u201cprocedural\u201d one, according to Mahon, who reinstated all five members days later, saying the \u201cremoval of school board members cripples the school district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Board president Sue Tiernan, as well as directors Joyce Chester, Karen Herrmann, Kate Shaw, and Daryle Durnell, are the five Democrats who have been reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their reinstatement, the case is still set to move forward on the merits, something that appears to be welcome news to Rosica, who said \u201cI would rather win this petition on its merits rather than on a technicality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for the school district to respond to the lawsuit on the merits is April 4.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All five Democrat members of Pennsylvania\u2019s West Chester Area School District\u2019s (WCASD) board have been reinstated by a judge after having been removed as a result of voting to mandate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}