The following report is from The Hill:
For the second time in a month, the White House on Thursday urged large businesses to move forward with coronavirus vaccine mandates for their workforces despite court challenges to the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test requirement for private companies.
Our message to businesses right now is to move forward with measures that will make their workplaces safer and protect their workforces from COVID-19. That was our message after the first stay issued by the Fifth Circuit. That remains our message and nothing has changed.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters during a briefing.
Psaki’s comments came after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said it would suspend enforcement of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for businesses after a federal appeals court reaffirmed its decision to suspend the mandate.
Psaki said Thursday that the administration remains confident that it has the authority to issue the rule, known as an emergency temporary standard, which requires businesses with more than 100 employees to require that their employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to regular testing for the virus.
Psaki also said the administration was still working off the Jan. 4 deadline it set for businesses to comply with the rule, despite the ongoing legal dispute.
We are still heading towards the same timeline. The department of justice is vigorously defending the emergency temporary standard in court and we are confident in OSHA’s authority.
A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans blocked the vaccine mandate earlier this month. The judges, all of whom were appointed by Republican presidents, described the vaccine rule as “grossly” exceeding OSHA’s authority. At the time of the initial ruling, the White House urged businesses to move forward with vaccine requirements for workers.
Earlier this week, the legal dispute over the vaccine rule was transferred to the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is considered one of the more conservative circuit courts in the nation, albeit less conservative than the appeals court in New Orleans.
That could spell trouble for the vaccine mandate’s fate.
Even so, Psaki noted polling showing that businesses are moving forward with some kind of vaccine rule in order to protect their workforce from COVID-19 regardless of the ongoing dispute, welcoming those efforts. A number of well-known businesses have publicly embraced the mandates.
The vaccine rule for businesses was part of a broader effort by President Biden to encourage more people to get vaccinated in the United States, where just under 60 percent of the total population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Proverbs 28:15
Sleepy Joe (who runs nothing, nor Kamala, mind you) have zero constitutional grounds to do this; and is just firing out commands left and right. As covered before in another report, Biden’s original commands didn’t even truly exist for the longest time – as it was quite literally media railings of “patience wearing thin” – but even when courts are challenging this, these tyrants do not care one bit.
Judge Napolitano – one of the nation’s top experts on Constitutional rights and liberties, and then some – believes this will go to the Supreme Court to be discussed. If so, I honestly doubt they will do anything either to stop these wicked mandates.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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eventually the mandates will happen regardless probably