White House Taunts Texas and Florida for Fighting Vaccine Mandates: Joe Biden Will Override State Laws

The White House on Tuesday warned Republican governors of Texas and Florida that President Joe Biden would override their efforts to fight coronavirus vaccine mandates in their states.

“We know that federal law overrides state law,” she said referring to state attempts to ban vaccine passports.

She accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of playing politics by issuing executive orders that fight vaccine passports.

“Why would you be taking steps that prevent the saving of lives that make it more difficult to save lives across the country or in any state?” she asked.

Psaki argued that the governors were “putting politics ahead of public health.”

“Every leader should be focused on supporting efforts to save lives and end the pandemic,” she said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Monday banning any entity in Texas from requiring vaccine mandates for their employees or their customers.

“In yet another instance of federal government overreach, the Biden Administration is now bullying many private entities into imposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, causing workforce disruptions that threaten Texas’s continued recovery from the COVID-19 disaster,” Abbott wrote.

On Tuesday, he announced fines for Leon County for firing 14 employees after they refused to get the vaccine.

“We must protect the jobs of Floridians and preserve the ability of Floridians to make their own decisions regarding what shots to take,” he said.

Biden announced his intention in September to enact a new rule requiring all businesses over 100 employees to require their workers to get vaccinated for the coronavirus or lose their jobs.

I believe you will find that Congress has many decades for relied upon the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution as giving it the authority to adopt such statutes as the OSH Act of 1970, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Federal Labor Relations Act, and a host of other statutes that impose enforceable requirements on private actors.

. . . And when the consequences of such power seizures are suddenly noticed together, there is sometimes a long-building, popular push-back that opens the way for a court to overturn precedents like those on Constitutional grounds.

We've seen the Supreme Court overlook or overturn precedents and ignore plain Constitutional definitions of powers in order to create or take away rights according to political or cultural pressures of the moment.

It's not to praise in any way the segregation of blacks and whites (although the Left seems to favor it now) to point out that Brown vs. Board of Education was unconstitutional on its face. As were the New Deal and the creation of the Department of Education. As was One, Inc. vs. Oleson. As was Griswold vs. Connecticut. As was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which made a mockery of free association). As was Roe vs. Wade. As was Lawrence vs. Texas. . .

So I'd say the Court is not immovable in the face of class hatred, threats, or mass delusion. Otherwise we couldn't explain all those decisions and Acts of Congress. But the Court does move more slowly. Which means we'd better get to work now, so that our grandchildren may see the result.

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