Posted on 01/13/2022 1:45:49 PM PST by Heartlander
On January 10, 2022, businesses across America with more than 100 employees were in compliance with OSHA by demanding their workers get vaccinated or submit to unrelenting testing that is mostly unavailable at the time of this writing. Workers across the country have been fired from their jobs for not submitting.
While waiting for the courts to come up with a definitive decision, HR departments around the country have imposed the mandate.
Three days following the imposition of the edict, the Supreme Court has finally issued its opinion. In a 6-3 decision, the Court has struck down the mandate. The PDF is embedded below.
While the court struck down the broad mandate, in a separate opinion decided on a 5-4 vote, it has kept a federal regulation pertaining to federally funded health-care facilities. The dissenting opinions in this case had even stronger language.
Here are some quotes from the main opinion on OSHA:
Permitting OSHA to regulate the hazards of daily life—simply because most Americans have jobs and face those same risks while on the clock—would significantly expand OSHA’s regulatory authority without clear congressional authorization….
It is telling that OSHA, in its half century of existence, has never before adopted a broad public health regulation of this kind—addressing a threat that is untethered, in any causal sense, from the workplace….
We are told by the States and the employers that OSHA’s mandate will force them to incur billions of dollars in unrecoverable compliance costs and will cause hundreds of thousands of employees to leave their jobs….
Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly. Requiring the vaccination of 84 million Americans, selected simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees….
Justice Gorsuch wrote a concurring opinion with tougher language, and Justices Thomas and Alito joined in signing:
supremecourtOSHAYet that is precisely what the agency seeks to do now—regulate not just what happens inside the workplace but induce individuals to undertake a medical procedure that affects their lives outside the workplace. Historically, such matters have been regulated at the state level by authorities who enjoy broader and more general governmental powers. Meanwhile, at the federal level, OSHA arguably is not even the agency most associated with public health regulation.…
On the one hand, OSHA claims the power to issue a nationwide mandate on a major question but cannot trace its authority to do so to any clear congressional mandate. On the other hand, if the statutory subsection the agency cites really did endow OSHA with the power it asserts, that law would likely constitute an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority. Under OSHA’s reading, the law would afford it almost unlimited discretion…
We do not impugn the intentions behind the agency’s mandate. Instead, we only discharge our duty to enforce the law’s demands when it comes to the question who may govern the lives of 84 million Americans. Respecting those demands may be trying in times of stress. But if this Court were to abide them only in more tranquil conditions, declarations of emergencies would never end and the liberties our Constitution’s separation of powers seeks to preserve would amount to little.
The Supreme Court was showing the same urgency as the Biden Administration in dealing with this "emergency."
-PJ
Then they had better pay back all the money that those seniors paid into SS —make it a lump sum.
“On a personal note, this would be the 4th time I would have got this shot. Two scheduled appointments early on...first our kid got sick at school, second my trucks brake line let’s go in the driveway, third the tech had an emergency and left, and now this. Ever feel someone’s been looking out for you and just reinforced it, especially since this mandate wasn’t a choice?”
If we are fortunate in our lives, we can have events like you posted above.
My wife’s Bible study group in their last meeting discussed when angels intervene or step in.
They would say that your angels intervened for you.
On again, off again ... and it could be on again shortly.
This is what government calls “stability,” it protects the public reliance interest.
BiteMe is just Deep State’s sock puppet.
The problem is Deep State.
“...they knew within a few weeks that the OSHA vaccine mandates were unconstitutional...”
SCOTUS = Supreme Clowns of the United State
John Roberts doesn’t get to say that and then NOT accept electoral and voter fraud cases because they have “no standing”
Come on over to my house and i,all be more than happy to show you how feeble I am. I’ve got some decent scars that need some tlc.
Happy about part of it being struck down. Sad for those healthcare workers. Am I reading this right it was Barrett who flipped on the 5-4 ?
Out freaking standing!
“We do not impugn the intentions behind the agency’s mandate“
Why not? They’re easily impugnable.
Um no.
Biden's abuse of OSHA is a symptom of the political disease known as Administrative Law, and is where the vast majority of post-Constitutional laws in modern times have been made under the euphemism of "regulations".
Kavanaugh and Roberts are the two who made the difference in outcome between the two cases. Those are the only two against OSHA and for CMS.
OSHA would not have mandated vaccines if Biden hadn’t tried to make them do it. Also OSHA had it right when they were going to make employers count vaccine EAs as an injury/illnesses recordable. Biden made them change that too.
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The federal government confiscated Social Security payments from my paychecks. Because of that now the Supreme Court gets to tell me that I can only receive medical care from vaccinated medical providers. Plus, the supremes say that providers who do not fire unvaccinated staff may not receive payments from Social Security.
IT’S NOT THEIR MONEY.
Today’s Supreme Court decision say “must” mandate vaccines for these people or did it say that the federal government “may” mandate vaccines for these people? There is a big difference.
My wife works in the deli at a major grocery store. Before today, they had JUST sent out a company edict that all employees had to either be: 1) vaxxed and show proof, or 2) get tested weekly. AFTER this ruling the company issued another edict that their previous decision was rescinded and that what they will keep is the requirement to wear masks - which is really just to placate the VAX-KAREN customers.
The wife was worried about it because she didn’t want to lose her job so she’s relieved now. The store has so much trouble getting workers it’s pitiful...they’ll hire almost anyone that walks in the door now. She said the store manager was pulling out his hair about having to deal with the repercussions if that edict had gone through.
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