Judge Blocks Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors

Resist the Mainstream ^ | 11/30/2021 | RTM Staff

[ducttape45]

A judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, finding that Biden likely lacks the authority to force them to get vaccinated.

“This is not a case about whether vaccines are effective. They are. Nor is this a case about whether the government, at some level, and in some circumstances, can require citizens to obtain vaccines. It can,” U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, a George W. Bush nominee, wrote in the 29-page order.

“The question presented here is narrow. Can the president use congressionally delegated authority to manage the federal procurement of goods and services to impose vaccines on the employees of federal contractors and subcontractors? In all likelihood, the answer to that question is no,” he said.

The judge granted a request for a preliminary injunction by the attorneys general of Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee.

The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

“This is not about vaccines, it’s about the mandates,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, said in a statement. “The judge’s opinion clearly states that and it has been our position all along that the president cannot impose these mandates on the people.”

Biden signed an executive order on Sept. 9 that led several weeks later to the White House requiring contractors force all their workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine unless the worker is entitled to an exception.

Contractors who did not comply with the order, originally set with a Dec. 8 deadline, were poised to lose the government’s business.

The states charged that the vaccine mandate was both illegal and unconstitutional, in part because it was imposed with little regard to “important aspects surrounding the mandate, including but not limited to economic impacts, cost to States, cost to citizens, labor-force and supply-chain disruptions, the current risks of COVID-19, and basic distinctions among workers such as those with natural immunity to COVID-19 and those who work remotely or with limited in-person contacts, among other aspects.”

The government disagreed, arguing that the president does have authority to regulate contractors under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act because. Courts have ruled the president can pursue “efficient and economic” procurement, which he was in the order, lawyers asserted.

[WildHighlander57]

Bookmarked !!!

[Lizavetta]

This is not a case about whether vaccines are effective. They are.

Except when they're not.

[ducttape45]

Bingo!

[grcuster]

We just need the court to expand the preliminary injunction to be applicable to all states, not just the three.

[Lowell1775]

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Judge Blocks Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
Resist the Mainstream ^ | 11/30/2021 | RTM Staff

Posted on 11/30/2021, 6:23:23 PM by ducttape45

[griswold3]

This:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00258-1/fulltext?s=08#%20
KDenninger “Simply put: It Does Not Work”.

[Svartalfiar]

I have one co-worker who already resigned rather than reveal his jab info to the company (Federal contractor). His last day is Jan. 18 (the day of supposed full vaccination if you complied), but perhaps he can take a breather and work longer now.

That's dumb. If you resign, you have almost no recourse whatsoever in the future related to that job/quitting. If you just wait and force them to fire you, you have a lot more options regarding UI, lawsuits, reinstatement when courts rule it's all a nogo, etc. But if you quit, they can easily say that you leaving was voluntary on your part.