Posted on 01/15/2022 7:07:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In a statement released by his office, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts as a lack of ‘backbone’ for siding with liberal justices and upholding President Biden’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a much anticipated ruling blocking Biden’s mandate requiring vaccinations for businesses with more than 100 employees or regular testing. The high court however allowed a mandate requiring that facilities that receive federal funding to tell employees to get vaccinated.
On Friday, DeSantis appeared on the ‘Ruthless’ podcast to discuss the nurse mandate and the doctor mandate that Roberts and Kavanaugh both supported.
In its ruling, the court ruled 6-3 against the federal mandate for private employers, and 5-4 for the mandate for federally funded healthcare facilities to continue.
Although the Supreme Court’s decision is not final, 27 states have petitioned it to issue a stay on the health care mandate while lower court battles are fought.
As a result of short staffing at hospitals, DeSantis noted that hospitals in California are allowing Covid-positive nurses to return to work.
So now they are bringing COVID-positive people back to work while unvaccinated, likely immune through prior infection, healthy nurses are on the sidelines fired,’ the Sunshine State governor continued. ‘How insane are these policies?’
‘But honestly, Roberts and Kavanaugh did not have a backbone on that decision,’ DeSantis also said. ‘That’s just the bottom line.’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning vaccine mandates in November unless employers provided a broad range of exemptions.
‘I called a special session of the legislature in November and we provided protections so that, in Florida, you’re not going to lose your job over these shots,’ DeSantis said in the podcast. ‘You have the right to work.’
In response to the SCOTUS ruling, DeSantis said on Thursday that he would enforce the Florida law that prohibits private employers from imposing vaccine requirements on their employees, in addition to public workers.
‘We’re going to make sure that that is enforced, and we’re going to make sure we’re providing protections for people so that they don’t have their livelihoods ruined by an unconstitutional and really ham-handed federal mandate,’ DeSantis said.
Mary Mayhew, president and chief executive officer at Florida Hospital Association, said that hospitals receiving funding from Medicare or Medicaid could still require employees to receive vaccines.
‘Hospitals are obligated to remain compliant with the programs’ conditions of participation and must comply with this federal vaccine requirement now upheld by the highest court,’ said Mayhew, a former official in the DeSantis administration, according to Florida Politics.
Hospitals are now caught between Biden and DeSantis’ ongoing feud, said Mayhew, and ‘may still need clarity from the courts regarding federal preemption regarding the Florida state law.’
On the other side, Biden called the Supreme Court’s ruling against the private employer mandate ‘disappointing’ but touted that the healthcare mandate ‘will save lives.’ He encouraged private businesses to require vaccination of their own accord.
‘This emergency standard allowed employers to require vaccinations or to permit workers to refuse to be vaccinated, so long as they were tested once a week and wore a mask at work: a very modest burden,’ the president claimed.
‘As a result of the Court’s decision, it is now up to States and individual employers to determine whether to make their workplaces as safe as possible for employees, and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers during this pandemic by requiring employees to take the simple and effective step of getting vaccinated.’
There are thirteen states that have banned or limited the implementation of mandatory vaccine mandates, including Texas, Florida, and Arizona, while many companies such as Macy’s and Starbucks have already announced their own protocols.
In states led by Democrats, such as New York, the rules will not be touched and they will be able to continue operating as usual, while states without any rules in place can decide for themselves what to do with them.
thank God. someone on the national stage to speak for us.
Kavanaugh too busy playing beer pong and head-banging to Van Halen.
Brett Kavanaugh‘s courage and sense of self was somewhat destroyed by his treatment in the confirmation process and the attempts of the monsters to destroy him and his reputation. He cares too much now about how his judicial decisions will cause people to perceive him. That leads him astray sometimes from the correct legal decisions.
Imagine thinking it’s smart and just to decide Americans should be able to make their own health care decisions, unless they are actual health care workers.
Ah. That's the catch. Kavanaugh and Roberts (especially him) are annoying for having no "backbone" and trying to appease the beltway crowd, but we always know if you accept federal funds, it comes with strings. Simple solution, don't take Medicare or Medicaid payments.
Thanks Bush for nominating Roberts——not.
As the hospitals close, I hope folks remember who mandate it.
RE: Simple solution, don’t take Medicare or Medicaid payments.
What about those who have been FORCED ( as in Taxes deducted ) to contribute to Medicare during their working years and have now retired?
How are we going to tell them not to take Medicare?
Hey Brett - some day you are going to be in a hospital and these same health care workers you forced to take part in an experiment are going to be caring for you. Years from now they will still be pissed. You better watch them carefully.
YES YES!!!!
RE: As the hospitals close, I hope folks remember who mandate it.
My bet is they’re not going to close. They will reluctantly try to enforce the mandate and make do without the healthcare workers who refuse to take the vaxx.
I don’t think they will refuse to take Medicare or Medicaid patients. Some small clinics or practices will probably refuse to ( I know of a few that refused to deal with Medicare and Medicaid BEFORE Covid even struck ), but that’s going to be a small minority.
Yeah. Maybe it’s not fair but the federal government holds tremendously power in every day lives of Americans. In the bright side though, we do not have the NHS like they do in the UK. So it could be a lot worse.
RE: Thanks Bush for nominating Roberts——not.
What about Trump for nominating Kavanaugh?
So much energy was spent trying to defend him from the smear campaign ... all for naught.
Trump should be singing the same time..
I’ve had more time to be disgusted with Roberts.
Good. Liking DeSantis more and more..
Thank goodness Trump's vaulted "list" was full of awesome "originalist" Scalia clones that FReepers could blindly support anyone and everyone Trump picked from it for a lifetime job on SCOTUS. No way they'd get buyers remorse from that tactic!
I will do everything that I can to make sure that DeSantis is the next President.
I believe that Kavanaugh will go where Roberts goes.
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