“Sad Little Man”- song against Dr Death-by-FauXi
Posted on 11/17/2021 4:23:03 AM PST by Kaslin
Working Americans got good news on Friday. They may not have to worry about getting laid off because of qualms about the COVID-19 vaccine. A federal appeals court suspended the Biden administration's attempt to mandate the shots at private sector workplaces with 100 or more employees.
Under resident Joe Biden's order, which would go into effect Jan. 4, employees who refuse the shots have to submit to weekly testing at their own expense or lose their jobs.
Vaccines are not required to collect welfare or food stamps, or to come across the southern border and apply for asylum. They're just required to work. Go figure.
Justifying the mandate, Biden said his "patience" was "wearing thin " and "too many people remain unvaccinated."
But a three-judge panel in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals slammed Biden's ends-justifies-the-means approach. The Constitution limits what the federal government can make people do, even in emergencies.
It's in the public's interest, Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt wrote, to protect "our constitutional structure and" maintain "the liberty of individuals to make intensely personal decisions according to their own convictions -- even, or perhaps particularly when those decisions frustrate government officials."
And exasperate their liberal media allies. CNN bashed the Fifth Circuit as "notoriously conservative." Vox dismissed it as a "right-wing panel." Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus slammed the judges' "stingy vision of the federal government's powers" and threw up her hands: "Maintaining our constitutional structure? How about saving lives?"
Conspicuously lacking in the left's response is a legal defense of the mandate. It's indefensible. Even before Friday's ruling, Biden's spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told employers to bulldoze ahead, disregarding legal challenges.
That shows how little the Biden administration and Democrats care about the rule of law and individual freedoms.
The Fifth Circuit judges deemed the mandate recklessly "overinclusive." Rather than using "a delicately handled scalpel" to identify workplaces where unvaccinated workers may pose a severe risk -- such as meatpacking plants, where employees work shoulder to shoulder -- federal regulators used "a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer."
At the same time, said the judges, the mandate is inexplicably "underinclusive," not affecting anyone in smaller workplaces, as if the virus passes over them.
And how about people who don't work? The judges didn't raise the issue, but the public keeps asking about it.
The Fifth Circuit also balked at using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to weasel through a mandate that far exceeds that agency's authority and circumvents Congress. Some reports called it "the ultimate work-around."
Not that congressional action would have done the trick. The judges doubted Congress has the authority to compel individuals to get vaccinated, like states and local governments do. The Constitution's commerce clause has been stretched like a rubber band over the last century to support expansions of federal power in economic areas, but it can't support mandatory vaccination, which the judges called a "noneconomic inactivity."
This case is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court, where the mandate is unlikely to survive. As Justice Neil Gorsuch opined in another COVID-19 case, "civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency."
In the meantime, Republicans in Congress are seizing the opportunity to highlight how the mandate makes working people into suckers, while no one else is being forced to choose between their personal freedom and putting food on the table.
Using the Congressional Review Act, a handy tool to overturn agency regulations, Republicans will be calling for a vote of disapproval against the vaccine mandate. Even if it passes both houses, Biden will likely veto it. Getting two-thirds of both houses to override Biden is unlikely. Even so, calling the vote will be a pretty sight, with moderate Democrats squirming about forcing vaccine mandates on their constituents, when members of Congress and their staffs don't have to get the jabs to keep their jobs.
It's the typical Washington D.C. hypocrisy: Rules good enough for thee but not for me.
Finally we have Justices who understand the differences between a Constitutional Republic and a Dictatorship.
Vaccine mandate: Religious exemptions end Monday for New York health care workers
And abso no interest from the enemedia on whether or not vaxxed healthcare employees are giving the coof to their patients.
And 13 traitors helping to counteract any demoncraps who wander off reservation. I call it "pulling a kinzinger".
The Biden Admin’s back-up argument (also heard in Big Media) is basically “yeah it’s unconstitutional, but this is a public health emergency, so the normal rules have to be suspended”
Trouble is, the Biden Admin spent 2 months doing nothing but talking about the vax mandate, and now the worst of the crisis is already over (deaths & hospitalizations both down a lot) ... two facts that the SC will use to show it’s NOT an “emergency” that justifies overriding the Constitution!
Trouble is, the Biden Admin spent 2 months doing nothing but talking about the vax mandate, and now the worst of the crisis is already over (deaths & hospitalizations both down a lot) ... two facts that the SC will use to show it’s NOT an “emergency” that justifies overriding the Constitution!
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#1 99.9% survivable is NEVER A EMERGENCY
#2 Jabbed individuals can SPREAD the virus just as much or MORE THAN non-jabbed folks.
These are the principle factors why the mandate is pure garbage.
A nurse just body slams with facts.
BTW, I'm wondering how many of these so-called breakthrough cases are really adverse reactions to a vaxx, especially if they occur within 2 weeks of vaccination...
Ignoring illegals who are untested and unvaccinated is proof positive that the public threat is not taken seriously by our government. It’s obvious that something else is driving the mandate, which maybe corporate greed or an evil desire simply to do harm to Americans and the economy. Ignorance or incompetence are no longer reasonable explanations.
Now every ambulance chasing son of a bitch can sue every employer if his worthless client gets covid
For America to thrive, it must be open season on Covid ambulance chasers
Open season is an emergency measure
The people commenting on the Nurse’s weight. What does it have to do with what she’s seeing in the hospital? Are they even listening to what she’s saying?
We could declare ourselves as illegal and go on welfare to get around the mandate. Bonuses include free rent, free medical and a few other bennies.
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