Posted on 01/13/2022 12:27:48 PM PST by conservative98
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate on large private businesses through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on Thursday, but upheld a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate.
The decision on the OSHA mandate was 6-3; the decision on the CMS mandate was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the court’s three Democratic appointees in upholding it.
As Breitbart News reported last week, the Court had appeared skeptical of the mandates during oral arguments, especially the OSHA mandate, as Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar struggled to identify the statutory authority for imposing it.
Chief Justice Roberts had seemed particularly irritated by a comment by MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle that had been retweeted by White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, which referred to the OSHA mandate as a “workaround.”
The conservative justices seemed concerned during oral arguments about the CMS mandate’s use of the federal spending power to pressure institutions accepting Medicare and Medicare funding to comply, but the more limited scope of the mandate, at least compared to the OSHA mandate’s more blatant intrusion into the private sector, appeared to save it.
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Very bad day for the Dems.
Chuckle.
Not at the moment, but inevitably yes.
You pay for Medicare. Those on Medicaid…not so clear
That sounds good right off, but the good ones probably won’t be able to bring themselves to do it.
How would anyone with a conscience feel if one of their patients died because his or her nurse was standing on the sidewalk outside the hospital holding up a sign?
It’s a ‘damned if you do or don’t’.
Zero discussions of natural immunity... now why’s that? /S
Kavanaugh has been such a huge disappointment. And Roberts is ... just being Roberts.
My question is, how can any institution (Federal or otherwise) mandate a “not a vaccine” that only has an EUA?
$90,636,463 in Big Pharma donations to pols in 2020.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?cycle=2020&ind=H04
“Very bad day for the Dems.”
And healthcare workers.
5-4? This should be 9-0.
EMS providers are already stretched thin. With this ruling people are going to have to queue for a 911 callback.
Well there was no way the Liberal Cheerleaders weren’t going to vote for the mandates.
“Will this effect those ON Medicare as well?
IOW, will we be required to take the clot shot in order to receive other Medicare benefits?”
You can bet it is coming soon, because what they just did was give them the authority to write their own rules as they like, Constitutional or not.
Splitting the baby, exactly as I predicted.
They (Biden’s handlers) knew the OSHA mandate would probably fail. But they also knew that it would take a while to be rejected and many more people would get the poke out of the fear and confusion that it caused.
Scumbag Roberts, Still blackmailed.
This doesn’t bode well for killing the fed contractor mandate.
Kav Kaves again.
And that would apply to PS teachers as well?
All federally-funded (federally-”linked”) or Every Federal contractor, of any kind?
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