Posted on 01/13/2022 5:33:17 AM PST by janetjanet998
ASHINGTON (TND) — The U.S. Supreme Court is set to begin issuing opinions Thursday morning.
It’s expected that among them will be a ruling on the vaccine mandate for large employers and healthcare workers.
In a special session this past Friday to hear the case, Chief Justice John Roberts remarked that the federal government has never imposed a mandate like this on private companies.
The rest of the court's conservative majority also appeared to be leaning towards opposing it.
However, they seemed to be more understanding of the requirement for healthcare workers, saying that the government can impose conditions when there's government funding involved.
Court watchers now mostly expecting a split decision.
The opinions are expected to start coming down at 10 a.m. Thursday.
Not today. We have the R number. No more opinions.
I’ll take 6-3.
No opinion today on the mandate. SCOTUS seems to be punting and will let the mandate go into effect by default.
Only one opinion released today.
Nothing more. The R number is posted.
They really have until February before it gets dicey.
I still think we will hear something before the end of January.
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
I don’t. I think they are going to vote that the mandates are wrong. Doing that will start the ball rolling to get the country back on its feet. And the rats actually need that for November.
Surprised they didn’t say “No standing” and walk away.
My employer (healthcare) has townhall meetings scheduled for tomorrow...
I know people want something now, but it really is a lot to ask for a complicated decision that will affect agency law to be fully written in less than a week.
It’s pretty clear that they aren’t just going to rule on a stay, they are going to write on the merits.
The opinion will control agency law for some time to come.
Since fines aren’t being implemented until February for lack of testing, the court does have some time.
Not today.
Looks like something relating to this is what came out today. Per scotusblog...
The Court holds that civil service pensions based on employment as a dual-status military technician are not payments based on “service as a member of a uniformed service” under the Social Security Act.
I listened to some of the questions and testimony last night.
I’m not feeling hopeful.
Roberts reliably is suggesting a blanket mandate and asking why the giverment is doing enforcement agency by agency. His comment on the military made me vomit. “[never mind] the military, they just follow orders.”
I hope your dream comes true but I ruefully doubt it will.
The mandates will stand ( my bet )
Re: 69 - Thank you for injecting a dose of reality in the thread
All pretend lawyers, you can now go back to your normal activities.
That’s not what Roberts was getting at. Going agency by agency to get around Congress is a problem.
It would be easy to issue a one sentence stay with a full ruling to follow.
The other thing, is Roberts generally strives for consensus. He Martin-Quinn scores are in the middle of the pack. He *may* be using this extra time, to push for a narrow ruling to widen the yea/nay gap.
A ruling against mandates would be suicide in the court of state media and other agitprop outlets
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