Posted on 09/24/2022 9:04:22 PM PDT by george76
A Louisiana federal judge on Wednesday permanently blocked the federal government from enforcing its mask and vaccine mandates for children and teachers in public preschool.
The Head Start program, which provides early education to infants, toddlers, and kids preparing for kindergarten, cannot require that any adults or students in the applicable centers or daycare be vaccinated against Covid-19 or wear masks, U.S. District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty ruled.
The regulation applied to children as young as two years old, Doughty noted, both indoors and outdoors during activities that involve close contact with other people. The court rejected the argument of the government that the mandates fell under an “administrative standard,” finding that the provision only pertains to administering the Head Start program and financial issues, not medical ordinances.
Doughty, who was appointed by former president Trump, invoked the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote that “Congress . . . does not alter the fundamental details of a regulatory scheme in vague terms or ancillary provisions — it does not hide elephants in mouse holes.” In this case, the elephant was the mandate and the mouse hole is HHS’s attempt to disguise the mandate as a “mere modification” of the administrative standard, Doughty argued.
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On the question of the vaccine mandate, Doughty declared: “The public interest is served by maintaining the constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals who do not want to take the COVID-19 vaccine. This interest outweighs Agency Defendants’ interests.”
Doughty’s decision nullifies active restrictions in 24 states.
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Biden recently declared that the ‘pandemic is over,’ the fight to restore Americans’ individual liberties is not,” Daniel Suhr, ... We will continue to fight for teachers like Sandy and the low-income students they serve until every illegal and unjustified mandate is wiped from the books.
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What are the odds again of children getting covid? What are the odds children will have mental issues or delayed learning? What are the odds this is the liberal teachers union?
Johns Hopkins : no healthy kids under 18 have died from Covid, without a pre- existing medical condition such as leukemia.. -2- healthy kids are dying from the vaxx....
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FANTASTIC!!!!
I want to buy that guy a drink!
Mandate blocked ONLY in these States:
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, and West Virginia.
Tots are still smothered in the other 26...mostly blue Governors.
Then there are those mystery pediatric hepatitis cases...
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