Sarah Palin’s living constitution

An Alaskan mini-Trump legislator was banned by Alaska Airlines for being an obscenely self-centered dipshit who doesn’t care about the safety of other passengers:

Last week, a police officer responded to an Alaska Airlines terminal in Juneau as state Sen. Lora Reinbold clashed with staffers over mask rules. It was a familiar battle for the Republican lawmaker, a vaccine skeptic who has blasted flight attendants as “mask bullies” and accused the airline of “mask tyranny.”

Now, she isn’t welcome on their flights at all. Alaska Airlines this weekend banned Reinbold “for her continued refusal to comply with employee instruction regarding the current mask policy,” the airline said in a statement to The Washington Post.

That’s a serious problem for the lawmaker, because Alaska Airlines operates the only regular flights to the state capital from her home in the Anchorage area, the Anchorage Daily News reported. Reinbold scrambled on Sunday to get to Juneau via an arduous 14-plus-hour car ride, including a jaunt through Canada, to reach a ferry to the capital.

Well, Terry, it sure as shit ain’t sad.

Reinbold is furious that her inalienable constitutional right to risk infecting a captive audience with a deadly virus is being abridged:

Reinbold also lashed out at the airline, claiming that her latest fight over mask rules was caused by “uptight employees at the counter” and arguing that Alaska Airlines was wrong to publicly confirm that she had been banned.

“Alaska Airlines sent information, including my name, to the media without my knowledge nor permission. I do believe constitutional rights are at risk under corporate covid policies,” she wrote on Facebook.

I am just a country constitutional scholar but I must say I am unaware of the provision granting individuals the right to fly on private airlines while belligerently refusing to comply with their safety policies. Must be in Article XII — somewhere in the back.

In the meantime, do the safety dance.