Chicago City Wire

Journalist Stephen L. Miller is calling out Valerie Jarrett for her inconsistent messaging over masks.

"Here's Valerie Jarrett posturing about continuing to wear her mask," journalist Miller tweeted. "Here she is two days later at Stanford, indoors and not wearing her mask."

On April 19, the day after the Biden administration’s forced masking in airplanes and other modes of transportation was ruled unconstitutional, Jarrett tweeted about her still choosing to wear a mask.

"Wearing my mask no matter what non-scientists tell me I can do," she said.

Days later Jarrett was on Stanford’s campus maskless. In a tweet, Miller linked to a photo of a maskless Jarrett.

"I'm delighted to be back on the @Stanford campus where I spent 4 extraordinary years in college. I'm looking forward to watching @BarackObama deliver the keynote at @StanfordCyber’s Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm summit. Tune in!" she said at the time on Twitter.

U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the Biden administration's mandate requiring the public to wear masks "in airports, train stations, and other transportation hubs as well as on airplanes, buses, trains" and other public places was unlawful because it exceeded the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statutory authority.

"The agencies are reviewing the decision and assessing potential next steps," the Biden administration official said Monday night, CNN reported. "In the meantime, today's court decision means CDC's public transportation masking order is not in effect at this time. Therefore, TSA will not enforce its Security Directives and Emergency Amendment requiring mask use on public transportation and transportation hubs at this time. CDC recommends that people continue to wear masks in indoor public transportation settings." 

Jarrett is originally from Chicago, where she got her start in politics under the administration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. She served as senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama and assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs from 2009 to 2017.