Despite the misinformation spewed forth by Justice Sotomayor, The US Supreme Court has blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test rule for US businesses, but allows vaccine mandate for most health care workers.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) argue against the Department of Labor, in the Court’s first hearing, that:
“OSHA’s sweeping regulatory dictate,” will “irreparably injure the very businesses that Americans have counted on to widely distribute COVID-19 vaccines and protective equipment to save lives—and to keep them fed, clothed, and sustained during this now two-year-long pandemic.”
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule would have required 80 million workers to get shots or periodic tests.
The OSHA ruling vote was 6-3 with Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan in dissent.
“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.”
Chief Justice John Roberts, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, said during arguments that he thinks it’s hard to argue that the 1970 law governing OSHA “gives free reign to the agencies to enact such broad regulation.”
The court allowed a separate rule to take effect requiring shots for workers in nursing homes, hospitals and other facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid payments from the federal government (which will be interesting given that California just allowed COVID positive healthcare workers to go back to work).
The vaccine mandate for healthcare workers vote was 5-4 with Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Barrett in dissent, which means Roberts and Kavanaugh joined liberal justices in allowing the HHS mandate on healthcare workers to stand.
So with over 1 million COVID cases per day and now his vaxx mandate in tatters, this seems to sum things up rather well…
How long before the cries of “Pack The Court” echo around The Capitol once more?
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I guaranteed Barrett would hose us. I was wrong. Will gladly eat crow for that one. Roberts & Kavanaugh sided with the libs on the federal health care mandate. Looking forward to reading the dissents on that one.
First time she showed she’s not the incarnation of Kali, the goddess of death and destruction.
It’s actually a win/win…the hospitals that want to keep their best staff will grant mass exemptions..those that don’t will see their best staff departing for Red states where they will ignore this silly mandate…
The opinions are linked here:
Why are they using the word “Block” instead of the phrase “Struck Down”?
Thats the left-wing media spinning their propaganda. It should read, struck down Joe Bidens unconstitutional mandate.
no law was struck down. they blocked an administrative action ( what AKJ said)
The law was not at issue…only the proposed rule/mandate, which was struck down..
It’s an injunction in advance of a final decision.
My understanding was scotus got involved because 2 separate appellate courts made opposing rulings in cases still in the district courts. This will stop the implementation of the mandate until the cases can be heard and rulings issued.
Alito on the healthcare worker mandate:
“Neither CMS nor the Court articulates a limiting principle for why, after an unexplained and unjustified delay, an agency can regulate first and listen later, and then put more than 10 million healthcare workers to the choice of their jobs or an irreversible medical treatment.
Therefore, I respectfully dissent.”
What’s funny about Biden winning this one is that hospitals are begging to be able to re-hire anyone – vaccinated or not – since they’re swamped with people with Omicron (aka a cold). They’ll be begging Biden to relent on this. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Administration sneakily removes that mandate in the next few days – whenever the smallest number of people are paying attention (probably Sunday night). Ha ha.
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Kavanaugh is such a disappointment.
This guy is the biggest dickhead on the Court. The conservatives went to bat for him and he has screwed us every trip of the train. What do they actually have on him? Obviously, not a high school blow session.
The “conservatives” suckered rubes like you.
What? You ever had doubts about “The 2nd Amendment shouldn’t be infringed upon lightly” Kavanaugh?
Nice of them to throw us a bone.
FB,
throw us a bone…. I thought that they were throwing down the gauntlet for congress to get the job done.
I’ll wait for the fat lady sing the final chorus. Until then I will keep may back to the wall and my butt cheeks tight.
I think it would pass easily.
If they worked for us that would be reasonable to assume.
no – I meant it in the negative sense… my pessimism runs deep.
Oh, ok. Tampa calls me a cynic. I say show me something to be uncynical about in government.
I’ll see your cynicism and raise you ‘thoroughly disgusted’
Throw us THE bone. FIFY
Setting precedent to violate the fundamental right upon which the US government was ostensibly founded is hardly “a bone”.
While I want to rejoice in the decision … I remind myself that everything that we get is given to us. Not given to us for our sake or our own good but because tyrants wanted us to have it.
Correct or not, is it this thought that tempers my joy and I begin to look for the next thing that will be coming.
Roberts could have stopped the stupidity for a couple more months had he not caved on the 2nd case. Same as not telling biden “no” but “hell no”. The traitor leaves the door open form more end runs, which the libs will certainly do.
Reading comment section of this article
while interspersed with bits of sanity it mostly reads like this…….
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/politics/supreme-court-biden-vaccine-mandate.html#commentsContainer
Scary that someone thinks like this…
Scary that someone is that scared…
Scary that someone is that uninformed of risks…
Scary that someone could be so hyperbolic
Scary that a Democrat is honest
Scary that someone could be so dumb
Scary that someone is so bad at analogies…. THAT ARE GREAT IDEAS!
And last but certainly not least
Scary that someone could be this hypocritical
I linked the article but it turned into a picture…
From the New York Times
Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Virus Mandate for Large Employers
It’s scary to think anyone here thinks Washington cares what we think.
It’s scary to think people (here) believe Washington has any say in anything.
It’s scary that there are so many scary people out there.😳
It’s scary to think that there are people who think that it’s scary that there are so many scary people out there.
Brought to you by Pfizer.
Shit…this is me scared of being scared…
Covidiots abound!
I think that I work with the dick (JR) from WI. If I was sure, I could approach him (maskless of course) and tell him that I agree with all of his suggestions.. Let’s get it done…. God, why am I in this state… well we are open carry but at the moment that seems small beer in the palliative dept.
Roberts – always the compromiser. His legacy remains intact. Kavanaugh – are we seeing shades of Roberts in him with looking to the Constitution being ok, as long as it doesn’t piss too many people off.
I like beer.
That’s Tom T. Halls line.
I was genuinely sorry to hear Tom committed suicide last August. He always struck me as a gentle soul.
me too… it makes me a jolly good fellow
It makes me a jolly good fellow.
I miss EC.
so do I
Yea…I could stay up really late and go back and forth with him.
after donk’s recent confession about coming out of the closet (doorknobs) I went back and perused some of the old posts -hilarious. Here’s a sample from uncola:
Lol you crack me up EC. Your satire is a unique blend of poetry and halitosis. ?
Now we wait to see if Congress passes a mandate. I guarantee that one has already been drafted. Not that it matters much, as states are free to impose mandates and many/most probably will. Either that or the sideways mandate of ridiculous fines for not being vaxxed, like Washington has done. Vaccine Passports are still a thing. They will spread.
Libs are screaming “pack the court”. LOL. Not yet they can’t.
The supremes punted. They did not do their “constitutional” job. It is all theater.
courts can -only- rule on the controversy before them, in this case an administrative order. They cannot extend or detract from the law that was used as a pretext for said administrative order. The game of course, is far more sophisticated than that.
In theory. But reality is a completely different matter. If there were 3 more crazy libs to go with the 3 that sit now where do you think we’d be?
In Quarantine.
Yep and would be even worse in Canuckistan. The only reason the place isn’t like Oz is because of the Second amendment and the deplorables.
They didn’t punt shit. They proclaimed to have the right to violate the most fundamental human right there is. That is not a punt but a profound defeat for all Christians and people who love liberty. What is wrong with you people?
I was referring to the ‘100 employee’ part -only-.
I have no doubt that they will ultimately live up to your expectation.
cf. Nate’s comment above
Blocked but not blocked. Medical workers can now say that if one group is exempt then they are exempt.
Medical workers need to quit en masse.