[Bruce Campbells Chin]

It isn't double-speak. He said that courts would find that the federal government as a whole has the power to order this, but that the President can't do it without Congress. So, these particular fines and penalties are invalid.

So yes, the federal government can do this theoretically, but not in the way Biden actually did it.

[Obadiah]

That's the way I read it. A lot of double-speak and seemingly contradictory statements and then he makes this statement:

But such mandates are “generally relegated to the legislature in our system of government, so I think the courts will focus on that issue first and say that the president may not have the authority to do this without congressional authorization,” Dershowitz said.