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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WE got Soutered with Kavanaugh. The fact that he clerked for Kennedy and Kennedy recommended him should have been a YUGE red flag.
“The Court has ruled that my administration cannot use the authority granted to it by Congress to require this measure,...”
Apparently FJB did not have the authority. 81 million ballots, yeh, sure.
Agree on Kavanaugh.
Gorsuch and Barrett seem pretty good so far, but Kavanaugh has been disappointing.
“Kavanaugh has been such a huge disappointment. “
Yup.
Thanks RACPE!
10.4 million out of a population of 350 million is that most of the population escape Dementia Joe’s crazy diktat.
Agree. At least we got two out of three, but frankly I was suspicious of Kavanaugh from the beginning.
I think the Dems’ bizarre “sex harrasment” theatre unfortunately prevented a closer examination of him on his actual opinions and stances on issues.
Maybe that was the point.
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