Posted on 11/06/2021 7:52:53 AM PDT by Enlightened1
OSHA has “officially filed its vaccine mandate rules for the COVID19 Jab. Affected employers have until Jan 4, 2022, to comply. In response, twenty-five states have filed or joined lawsuits in four different circuit courts to stop the mandate.
The states are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Several groups have also joined with the states in each respective filing in the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts.
From Reason.com, edited and reformatted:
Texas filed suit in the Fifth Circuit, joined by Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah.
Kentucky filed in the Sixth Circuit, joined by Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Idaho, and Oklahoma.
Missouri filed in the Eighth Circuit, joined by Nebraska, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Alaska, and Wyoming.
Florida filed suit in the Eleventh Circuit, joined by Georgia and Alabama.
And here is a brief look at the premise behind the suits, this one pulled from the 8th Circuit filing (which includes my home state of New Hampshire). Reformatted:
For over a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that policies on compulsory vaccination lie within the police powers of the States, and that “[t]hey are matters that do not ordinarily concern the national government.” Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11, 38 (1905).
Until quite recently, the Biden Administration agreed. The White House stated on July 23 of this year that mandating vaccines is
not the role of the federal government.” But on September 9, 2021, that position underwent a dramatic reversal.The President announced several sweeping vaccine mandates, including a vaccine mandate to be issued by OSHA that would apply to all employers who employ more than 100 employees. OSHA published this “emergency” mandate two months later, crafting an elaborate post hoc justification for a policy that the President had already ordered it to impose. This sweeping federal mandate encompasses, in OSHA’s own estimation, “two-thirds of all private-sector workers in the nation.”
This 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.
OSHA also lacks statutory authority to issue the ETS, which it shoe-horned into statutes that govern workplace safety, and which were never intended to federalize public-health policy. OSHA’s justification for the mandate is not supported by substantial evidence in the record considered as a whole under 29 U.S.C. § 655(f), as the ETS fails to consider obvious distinctions and critical aspects of the problem.
Its unlawful mandate will cause injuries and hardship to working families, inflict economic disruption and staffing shortages on the States and private employers, and impose even greater strains on struggling labor markets and supply chains.
The Federal Government lacks the Constitutional Authority, OSHA lacks the statutory authority, and hey, it’s unlawful and will hurt families and America.
All true.
But in an era where even courts have been fearmongered by the flu narrative, will any of it hold water? And is this a calculated ploy by Biden Inc., either way?
Let’s say the courts manage to freeze the order while the cases work their way through the Circuits to the Supreme Court. During the next 4-6 months we will have floundered through another flu season. People will get sick, and some will die, just like every flu season.
And these states and their governors and backers will get smeared relentlessly over it.
Well, that’s going to happen anyway, and the order is crap. But the timing of the OSHA release strikes me as very deliberate. They had all Summer to do it, but they waited until November.
Now we wait and watch.
HT | Reason.com
Where the heck is Indiana? I thought they were going to file as well!
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"We dont agree with Biden so our constituents will still vote for us but we will do nothing to stop the mandates or the tyranny."
That’s stupid. You don’t “file suit,” you just tell the Fed it’s none of their business. If the states are begging for permission for states’ rights, the already lost.
Color me shocked that the rino Kemp got on board with Florida and Alabama.
Just trying to save his butt from what coming next time he’s up for reelection.
Until there is a tidal wave that sweeps away the RINOs who were in office during the 2020 Steal and sees them replaced with fearless patriots, nothing will be accomplished.
We need an emergency injunction in short order.
Nothing will save Kemp. GA has open primaries, so if the Dems flood into the republican primary to put him over the edge, the grass roots GOP voters will sit out the general, even if it means the Water Buffalo gets in.
It would be interesting if some issue like this
was the final spark to light a fire underneath
the Article V Convention Of States movement.
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“...Twenty Five States Officially File Suit
Against ‘Biden’ OSHA Vax Mandate...”
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Is this like the various states and territories stands on slavery in the years before the first Civil War?
Sharp contrasts on policies. Intensity of mutual dislike and suspicions increasing.
This time our “Western territories” already are deeply into pushing jab mandates (CA,WA,OR).
Back here on planet Earth, Dwayne, serious people have to function within the constitutional and legal system that actually exists, not the one that know-nothing numb-nuts imagine to exist. Like it or not, telling the Feds "it's none of their business" went out with Appomattox Courthouse 1865.
Oh, and just so you know, JFK, Jr. isn't coming back either.
i Don’t believe any political communist part of what some call government will decide in favor of american citizens.
No real surprises in that list.
Ok conservatives. Here’s the list of states you should be living in; Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Or you can continue to feed the Leftist Beast.
Yes, it would be interesting. I doubt many citizens even know that Leftist groups wrote the legislation w/Pelosi in secrecy and that not a single congressman knew exactly what he voted for.
What we have is an oligarchy disguised in the drag of republican government.
in other words, surrender
“We need an emergency injunction in short order.”
Looks like you got it!
Because our goober-nor is an empty suit, flapping in the political winds.
Indiana must have been left off the list:
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