Posted on 09/15/2021 9:56:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Twenty-seven Republican governors or attorneys general have vowed to fight the latest executive order issued by President Joe Biden mandating that over 80 million private employees receive COVID vaccinations or undergo weekly testing, or their employer will be fined.
The executive order directs the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to require private businesses with more than 100 employees mandate that their workers receive both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing. Noncompliance would result in fines of $14,000 per violation.
The governors who’ve expressed opposition include those from Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Republican attorneys general from states with Democratic governors who also vowed to fight include Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Louisiana AG Jeff Landry.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, with whom Biden has sparred over mask mandates and vaccine passports, said Florida would fight back.
“When you have a president like Biden issuing unconstitutional edicts against the American people, we have a responsibility to stand up for the Constitution and to fight back, and we are doing that in the state of Florida,” he said.
“This is a president who has acknowledged in the past he does not have the authority to force this on anybody, and this order would result potentially in millions of Americans losing their jobs.”
Texas, which is already embroiled in several lawsuits with the Biden administration, vowed to sue. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said after hearing Biden’s announcement that “Texas is already working to halt this power grab” and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Texas would be suing the Biden administration “very soon.”
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said, “OSHA cannot dictate personal health care decisions for Missourians. Missouri is not under an OSHA state plan, and Parson will not allow state employees to be used to enforce this unconstitutional action.”
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster vowed to fight Biden, saying, “The American Dream has turned into a nightmare under President Biden and the radical Democrats. They have declared war against capitalism, thumbed their noses at the Constitution, and empowered our enemies abroad. Rest assured, we will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian.”
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said, “Governors don’t report to Joe Biden. Governors don’t report to the federal government, the states created the federal government, and Joe Biden has stepped out of his reach,” Ducey said. “These mandates are outrageous. They will never stand up in court. We must and will push back.”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita indicated he was working with a group of AGs to file a lawsuit. “My team and I, along with other like-minded attorneys general, are reviewing all legal action on how to stand against these authoritarian actions by the Biden administration,” he said in a statement.
The Republican National Committee also announced it was suing “to protect Americans and their liberties” if the proposed rule change were to go into effect.
In response to Republican pushback, White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond, a former Democratic congressman from Louisiana, told CNN the White House expected the opposition.
He said, “… those governors that stand in the way, I think, it was very clear from the president’s tone today that he will run over them. And it is important. It’s not for political purposes. It’s to save the lives of American people. And so, we won’t let one or two individuals stand in the way. We will always err on the side of protecting the American people.”
In my view, all states should be fighting back at the usurper’s tyrannical mandate.
It’s just about time to bust big business down to size (99 employees or less) by state law, excluding businesses needing to operate on a single site (i.e. auto factories excepted).
Fight an unconstitutional overreach? There is nothing to fight. The states just tell Biden and his lemmings to GFU. And keep the federal income taxes collected by the state.
Interesting how the lines are being drawn for and against DC. Last I heard it was 27 to 23. No wonder DC is nervous.
And so should employees and employers! If OSHA codifies a rule regarding these vaccines/tests, it becomes the employers financial responsibility and they cannot discriminate against someone who is not vaxxed.
Good idea, but he’d just move the goal posts to 50. FJB.
It’s been a week since these unconstitutional actions have been announced. Where are the lawsuits?
According to a report by AFL–CIO, it would take OSHA 129 years to inspect all workplaces under its jurisdiction.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said, “OSHA cannot dictate personal health care decisions for Missourians. Missouri is not under an OSHA state plan, and Parson will not allow state employees to be used to enforce this unconstitutional action.”
Good to be a Missourian right now.
Kentucky and Louisiana make it 29.
From the article;
“Republican attorneys general from states with Democratic governors who also vowed to fight include Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Louisiana AG Jeff Landry.”
I have never worked for OSHA but I’ve been inspected by them many times and knew several of their inspectors. I would bet anything that most of them are praying for this not to take effect. You would have to be crazy to want to be caught in the middle of this. What I really want to see is a governor threaten to put the enforcers of this rule in jail if they try to enforce it their state. That would interesting.
ACTION, not words...you GOP frauds. Montana outlawed mandates...what is YOUR problem?
Yes, it has done the trick. Even here at FR. Sad.
Plaster your post far and wide across FR.
It’s been a week since these unconstitutional actions have been announced. Where are the lawsuits?
You cannot sue until action has actually happened. An EO is a directive to an agency.
OSHA has yet to publish a rule. Once it does, you can sue.
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