President Biden was warned that he lacked the power to mandate vaccines for private workers, but he ordered the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to do it anyway. Late Friday came a sharp rebuke by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that marks an important check on the runaway administrative state. “The Mandate’s true purpose is not to enhance workplace safety, but instead to ramp up vaccine uptake by any means necessary,” Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote for the unanimous panel in a withering opinion that extends the court’s earlier stay on the OSHA mandate, which had been challenged by GOP states, numerous employers and individuals.
With his approval numbers sagging, Mr. Biden in early September ordered OSHA to require private employers with 100 or more workers to mandate that their employees be vaccinated or tested weekly. “Our patience is wearing thin,” he declared. READ MORE AT https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-illegal-vaccine-mandate-fifth-circuit-osha-covid-work-employees-11636921717?mod=opinion_lead_pos1
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MORE PRESS ON THE COURT DECISION AT https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/11/wh-ron-klains-re-tweet-spurred-court-to.html
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