Posted on 11/05/2021 7:51:34 PM PDT by DoodleBob
At least 24 Republican-led states have already taken action against President Biden's new COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses with more than 100 employees.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced the new vaccine rule Thursday that will require certain U.S. employers to ensure all their workers are either fully vaccinated by Jan. 4 or subject to weekly testing and mask-wearing.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt led an 11-state coalition in filing a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Friday morning.
"The federal government should not be forcing private employers to require their employees to get vaccinated or foot the cost to test those employees weekly," Schmitt said in a Friday statement....
Attorneys general from Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, New Hampshire and Wyoming joined Schmitt in filing the complaint, which alleges that the vaccine mandate "is unconstitutional, unlawful, and unwise."
"The federal government lacks constitutional authority under its enumerated powers to issue this mandate, and its attempt to do so unconstitutionally infringes on the States’ powers expressly reserved by the Tenth Amendment," it reads. "OSHA also lacks statutory authority to issue this mandate, which it shoe-horned into statutes that govern workplace safety, and which were never intended to federalize public-health policy."
Attorneys general from other states including Mississippi, Louisiana, Indiana, Kentucky, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Tennessee filed lawsuits against the president's mandate on Friday. On Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Attorney General Ashley Moody also sued the Biden administration. Earlier this week and last week, Alabama, Georgia and Texas submitted separate but similar legal challenges.
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The elites and illegals are exempt. American workers have to get it. There’s the rub.
Simple list of states please!
Why aren’t they challenging the EO regarding federal contractors?
I believe South Dakota is doing this as well.
Six more states joined 11 others Thursday in suing the Biden administration over a mandate that employees of federal contractors and subcontractors be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, filing two federal court...
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