Monday, November 15, 2021

Appeals Court Blasts Biden Vaccine Mandate: ‘One-Size-Fits-All Sledgehammer’

The National Review reports:
In a Friday-evening decision, a federal appeals court affirmed its stay of the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for private businesses, blasting the sweeping nature of the mandate.
There's more:
In the opinion, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judges Kurt D. Engelhardt, Edith H. Jones, and Stuart Kyle Duncan excoriated President Biden’s order as a broad overstepping of constitutional power and use of legal gymnastics. While the government claims the mandate derives its authority from a 1970s occupational-health-and-safety statute, the court argued that it “grossly exceeds OSHA’s statutory authority.”
Soon, we will find out if there's a limit to OHSA's authority.