Posted on 01/08/2022 12:33:55 AM PST by John Semmens
On Friday the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of President Biden's order that all businesses with 100 or more employees must compel their workers to be vaccinated or required to submit to weekly covid testing.
Scott Keller, attorney for the National Federation of Independent Business, argued that "the power to make getting vaccinated the law of the land is clearly reserved to Congress in Article I of the US Constitution." Several of the Justices questioned this argument.
Justice Elena Kagan posited that "the general welfare clause of the Constitution's preamble seems to trump the delegated powers argument advanced by Mr. Keller. Since getting vaccinated is essential for stopping the spread of covid the specific means for accomplishing this ought to override the President's lack of delegated powers. Why should there be any limit to what he can do in order to promote the general welfare?"
Justice Stephen Breyer claimed "the 750 million new cases of infection with the Omicron variant reported yesterday demands immediate action. This isn't the time to be nitpicking arcane 18th century language in a mostly obsolete document looking for authorization. Why isn't the fact that the President declares his mandate necessary sufficient to carry out his wishes?"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said "the insistence that the President should be limited to his delegated authority in the face of the dire crisis facing the nation is foolhardy. The President has no delegated authority to push a child out of the way of an onrushing bus, but we should not impede his heroic effort to save a life. As Justice Breyer has pointed out, 750 million people have already tested positive and 100,000 kids are on ventilators. Must the President be forced to wait for Congress to act while the unvaccinated are permitted to continue to infect and decimate our population?"
Justice Clarence Thomas, on the other hand, questioned the wisdom of "ignoring a document that serves as a barrier to tyrannical one-man rule. The President may assert that his policies are necessary and try to persuade Congress to act to legalize the impositions he says are needed, but I see no legitimate authority for him to bypass the representatives that the people have elected to defend their rights and interests. After all, 70% of the adult population is already vaccinated. Yet, even those who have received the vaccines are still coming down with covid and spreading it to others. Rather than abiding another unconstitutional abuse of power doesn't it make more sense to allow a robust debate of various options in Congress to consider whether a strategy focused solely on vaccination might be too narrow to yield the best results?"
In related news, the Massachusetts state government has issued an ultimatum to Nicole Coughlin, a Department of Developmental Services employee, to get fully vaccinated or be fired. Coughlin already received the front end of the two-dose Moderna vaccine, but had a severe allergic reaction. Her request for a medical exemption was denied. Donna Daniels, the secretariat director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion explained that "granting your request would increase workplace safety risks and negatively impact operational factors. It is better for you to bear the individual risk of an adverse reaction than for the state to have to put up with an exemption from rules meant to be universal to every member of the collective."
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The court has been compromised for some time, other than Thomas, I do not trust any of them, especially Roberts. I fully expect the court to ignore past ruling, black letter law and confirm the Mandate as legal, and in the process destroy what is left of the Constitution.
Everyone on the court has been vaccinated and boosted and again other than Thomas, are willing to go along with this Tyranny, it will open the floodgates to every other agency making their own mandates for whatever they want to.
Yes Trump thought he had put good people on the court and now we find out otherwise.
I wonder if we can have an abortion mandate, or a lobotomy mandate, or a vasectomy mandate?
if we can be forced to buy health insurance, or inject experimental drugs, why not
Their decision will be based on how much they are threatened or how much they are paid off.
another reason there should not be mandates:
8 Jan: news.com.au: Covid vaccination linked to small change in women’s menstrual cycles
Getting vaccinated can impact the length of women’s menstrual cycle, a new study has confirmed, although the change is small.
by Charis Chang
Many women have suspected it but finally there’s confirmation that Covid-19 vaccines may cause some small changes to the length of their menstrual cycles.
A study funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) found the length of a woman’s cycle was impacted by nearly one day on average after each dose of a vaccine, but it did not seem to impact the number of days of bleeding...
Women have reported changes to their cycles after getting vaccinated (LINK) but so far little research has been done on the phenomenon...
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/covid-vaccination-linked-to-small-change-in-womens-menstrual-cycles/news-story/f963ab6f03924c95a2bc2a7c8313e07c
There is no federal mandate to inject the experimental vaccine. But states have rights in the constitution.
Thomas and Alito.
Sadly the Constitution has become a sort of suicide pact. There aren’t any states, barring maybe Texas and Florida, with the gumption to stand up to the feds.
Even if they rule it Constitutional, a stretch by even the most uninitiated legal minds, I won’t abide. I’ll lose my livelihood, my home, even my life over this. This is the hill to die on. This is the tyranny our founders warned us about.
It’s not.
As usual, this isn’t satire. You’re saying out loud what we all know they’re thinking.
In the meantime, the whole world already knows the basic immunological facts and we've known it since our 6th grade Biology class.
AMEN!
See also:
Nation's Fate Now In The Hands Of 8 Dummies And Clarence Thomas (Babylon Bee)
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