Posted on 11/08/2021 3:17:18 PM PST by Enlightened1
The White House on Monday said businesses should move forward with President Joe Biden’s vaccine and testing requirements for private businesses, despite a federal appeals court ordering a temporary halt to the rules.
“People should not wait,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during a briefing. “They should continue to move forward and make sure they’re getting their workplace vaccinated.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, considered one of the most conservative appellate courts in the country, halted the requirements Saturday pending review, writing that “the petitions give cause to believe there are grave statutory and constitutional issues with the Mandate.”
The Biden administration has until Monday evening to respond.
The court-ordered pause came a day after the requirements went into effect, starting the countdown for businesses with 100 or more employees to ensure their staff have received the shots required for full vaccination by Jan. 4. After that date, unvaccinated workers must submit a negative Covid-19 test weekly to enter the workplace. All unvaccinated workers must start wearing face masks indoors at their workplaces starting Dec. 5.
The Republican attorneys general in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Utah, as well as several companies, requested the pause. They argue that the requirements exceed the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which will enforce the mandates, and amount to an unconstitutional delegation of power to the executive branch by Congress.
Republican attorneys general in at least 26 states have challenged Biden’s vaccine and testing requirements in five different U.S. appeals courts since last Friday. The Republican National Committee said it has also challenged the requirements in the D.C. Court of Appeals.
Why should any business comply without court approval if doesn’t want to?
She should be thrown in jail for contempt of court.
We should ask Microsoft, Fakebook, and Apple if their entire work force is vaccinated and PROVE it!
Bingo!
Laws for the but not for me!
Biden is following in the footsteps of top socialist leaders, telling everybody to not follow the law and violate the court rules that are like law. Biden is not very intelligent. If people start not following laws, next they will ignore his mandates. Not at all smart to suggest violating Court rulings for a president to do.
It’s cheaper to comply than to take the fine.
Companies do all sorts of stupid things because the governmenbt mandates it. I had a two man professional shop, and had to post all the “government regulation” posters.
By and large, companies care as much about employess as government cares about citizens. For companies, it’s all about the dollar and predictablility. The government will come down on a company like a ton of bricks anytime it wants to, so companies just do what they are told to do. Cost of business, pass it on.
Every poll swings widely depending on how the question is worded. I would hope that far fewer than 50% would approve of the mandate, no matter how it is worded.
They just HAVE TO GET THAT “VACCINE” MONEY.
Disgusting. Just ignore the Law. A new way to govern
This was the subject of a post the other day announcing the 5th Circuit’s decision.
I suggest everyone look at how the Obama Admin handled the adverse ObamaCare rulings. They simply ignored the decisions that went against them and treated only the pro-decisions as having merit.
So why do this? John Roberts. They know that he will cave. They know they own him.
My guess, he hears this before January 4th and declares no standing since the mandate isn’t in effect. Thereafter, he rules it is moot since it already had to be complied with.
This man isn’t a liberal, he isn’t a conservative, he is a coward. The worst kind.
If the government orders businesses to defy a court’s order, and the comply, functioning as an arm of the government, why wouldn’t those businesses expose themselves to being sued for civil rights violations?
70% of the public has been jabbed. That fraction is invested, and most of them probably think it fine to make others do what they did. "No big deal" sort of rationale, they don't think in terms of it being an infringement on personal liberty - it didn't interfere with THEIRS.
Let’s go, Brandon!
You are correct. They drank the fear koolaid so should you. It’s amazing that it running 80+% where I work.
Contempt of court.
-PJ
Thus the mad rush to jab as many as possible before the deadly downsides become apparent to all. Then 'if I only knew' will be the sob story heard around the planet.
No, they were cagey how it was worded by using the word "should".
But it's coming up to the line pretty close
One of the reasons “democracy” is evil.
Friggin’ lemmings.
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