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Admission Against Interest: White House Chief of Staff Admits Vaccine Mandate is a “Work Around” the Constitutional Objections
Jonathan Turley ^ | September 10, 2021 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 09/10/2021 5:34:38 PM PDT by george76

In the law, it is called an admission against interest or an out-of-court statement by a party that, when uttered, is against the party’s pecuniary, proprietary, or penal interests. In politics, it is called just dumb. White House chief of staff Ronald Klain offered a doozy this week when he admitted that the announced use of the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for a vaccine mandate was a mere “work around” of the constitutional limit imposed on the federal government. The problem is that the thing being “worked around” is the Constitution. Courts will now be asked to ignore the admission and uphold a self-admitted evasion of constitutional protections.

Notably, before inauguration, Klain publicly assured the public that Biden would that, on “his first day in office, I will issue a nationwide masking mandate, requiring that people wear masks where the federal authority extends and then urging governors and other local officials to impose mask mandates in their states.” That statement was then walked back due to the lack of legal authority to issue such a mandate.

Klain retweeted MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, who posted, “OSHA doing this vaxx mandate as an emergency workplace safety rule is the ultimate work-around for the Federal govt to require vaccinations.”

The “work around” was needed because, as some of us have previously during both the Trump and Biden Administration, the federal government does not have clear authority to impose public health mandates. Authority for such mandates has traditionally been recognized within state authority.

Make no mistake about it. This is a clever move to use the OSHA as the vehicle for the mandate to avoid the federalism issues of a direct mandate. President Joe Biden has been ping ponging on the issue for over a year in first suggesting that he could impose a national mandate and then admitting that he probably could not. Ironically, this move comes on the same day that Attorney General Merrick Garland denounced the “clever” use of the Texas abortion law to make it more difficult to challenge. Judging from the praise for Garland, it appears that such work arounds are noble when done for the right cause.

The question is whether this clever work around will in fact work. It might, but there are ample grounds from challenge. Under this interpretation OSHA could impose a federal mandate for any measure that impacts workers, including public health measures not directly linked to a given workplace or job. That may be more of a sticker shock for some on the federal bench, including some justices.

The move is unnecessary and therefore reckless. There are already challenges to the law which the Justice Department could join as amicus. It would then not have to risk the creation of additional losses in court after the impressive litany of losses of the Biden Administration. This was another filing that followed a public call from the President. It is again politics driving litigation by the Justice Department. The media covered such pressure extensively during the Trump Administration and legal experts objected that the Trump White House was attacking the independence of the Justice Department and other agencies. There is little attention to his pattern that extends from immigration to debt relief to the eviction moratorium.

The retweet by Klain will not be determinative in this case but it will be heavily referenced by challengers. He was saying the quiet part out loud. However, the real question is why the Administration would bring a case that is unnecessary to litigate a theory that is at best novel and untested. For a department known for its reluctance to bring such test cases to avoid negative precedent, the declaratory judgment says more about the political than legal priorities of the Administration.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; mandate; vaccine

1 posted on 09/10/2021 5:34:38 PM PDT by george76
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TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL to BIDEN: ‘I Will See You in Court Soon!’
Sean Hannity ^ | 09/10/2021 | Hannity Staff
Posted on 9/10/2021, 3:19:45 PM by Kevin in California

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton delivered a direct message to the Biden Administration Friday afternoon following the President’s federal vaccine mandate, saying “I will see you in court soon!”

“Biden’s new nat’l vaxx mandate on private biz may be the most unconstitutional, illegal thing I’ve ever seen out of any Admin in modern American history. This is an egregious, tyrannical power grab that stands no chance in court. I’ll be suing this disastrous Admin very soon,” posted Paxton on Twitter.


2 posted on 09/10/2021 5:36:22 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, Chicago/NYC! I'd move there )
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3 posted on 09/10/2021 5:38:43 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: george76

Roberts: “It’s like the obamacare tax!”


4 posted on 09/10/2021 5:42:28 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: george76

Keep it up, keep it up.


5 posted on 09/10/2021 5:50:41 PM PDT by CornPop
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6 posted on 09/10/2021 5:51:36 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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When everyone is vaccinated all they have to do is sit back and wait


7 posted on 09/10/2021 6:03:22 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: george76

This is a little off topic.
Per Monica On Air at Twitter, they are firing nurses who won’t comply and bringing in foreign nurses.
I’m on break at work and will post link later.


8 posted on 09/10/2021 6:17:40 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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They don’t even care anymore about exposing themselves to be lawless power grabbers. (The attempt to further ban evictions was also an admitted ‘work around.)


9 posted on 09/10/2021 6:33:06 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Grampa Dave

Running it through OSHA seems to be an end run around governors. OSHA is a lawmaking body that can mandate anything at all on workplaces with the force of law and Napoleanic courts to punish dissidents(must prove innocence) so long as they have the word safety somewhere in the law promulgated. Fighting it requires long court cases that depend on whether your judge is a communist or not and that is a real consideration in modern America. Whittaker Chambers’s pessimism was justified. He jumped to the losing side.


10 posted on 09/10/2021 7:11:31 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe oo)
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If not stopped, they’ll use this for climate change.


11 posted on 09/10/2021 7:17:12 PM PDT by TiGuy22
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OSHA is just another alphabet tyrant. A governor and state should still say fvk off because they are ILLEGAL as they are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Maybe it's really the time for CWII.

12 posted on 09/10/2021 7:21:26 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Maybe. WuFlu is being used to purify the military by pushing out the dissidents. CRT and action against :white rage” is working on that, too. We will soon have a military that will be let loose within the nation regardless of Posse Comitatus and will eagerly do the bidding of the rulers.


13 posted on 09/10/2021 7:24:56 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe '"')
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Bkmk


14 posted on 09/10/2021 8:06:38 PM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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Vaccine constitutional issues - bump for later...


15 posted on 09/10/2021 10:22:08 PM PDT by indthkr
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