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Tickle

(2,555 posts)
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 10:29 AM Jan 2022

Court blocks vaccine mandate for federal employees


This happened two days ago. I will remove this if someone has already posted it

Apparently it's perceived as a "medical procedure"

A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that the Biden Administration cannot enforce its vaccine mandate for federal employees, issuing an injunction that halts the requirement nationwide.

Judge Jeffrey Brown found the president had no legal authority to require feds to get vaccinated, saying that while he has broad power over federal employment policies, those authorities aren’t sweeping enough to justify the September executive order that implemented the requirement.

“This case is not about whether folks should get vaccinated against COVID-19 — the court believes they should,” he wrote. “It is not even about the federal government’s power, exercised properly, to mandate vaccination of its employees. It is instead about whether the president can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment. That, under the current state of the law as just recently expressed by the Supreme Court, is a bridge too far.”

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Walleye

(31,071 posts)
1. I remember this, "we're not against schools racially integrating
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 10:34 AM
Jan 2022

We just think the federal government should stay out of our local schools.” Not against racial integration at all. Riiight

spanone

(135,898 posts)
2. Will children be allowed to enter schools with no immunizations because of some judge somewhere....?
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 10:45 AM
Jan 2022

Welcome back, Polio, Diphtheria, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps, Tetanus, Rubella, Rotavirus, Pneumococcal, Pertussis


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