The Real Chief Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Alito Issue Blistering Dissents in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Ruling
“Today’s decision will ripple through administrative agencies’ future decisionmaking... The Executive Branch already touches nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives.”
There is good news and bad news out of the Supreme Court.
SCOTUS has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing it vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers. IThis deals a fatal blow to the White House's unlawful and unconstitutional large employer vaccine mandate.
The majority opinion in the 6-3 ruling sums up the legal reasoning for the ruling.
"It is telling that OSHA, in its half century of existence, has never before adopted a broad public health regulation of this kind—addressing a threat that is untethered, in any causal sense, from the workplace," the majority opinion read. "This 'lack of historical precedent,' coupled with the breadth of authority that the Secretary now claims, is a 'telling indication' that the mandate extends beyond the agency’s legitimate reach."
"The equities do not justify withholding interim relief. We are told by the States and the employers that OSHA’s mandate will force them to incur billions of dollars in unrecoverable compliance costs and will cause hundreds of thousands of employees to leave their jobs," opinion continued.
"The applications for stays... referred to the Court are granted," the ruling concluded. "OSHA’s COVID–19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard, 86 Fed. Reg. 61402, is stayed pending disposition of the applicants’ petitions for review in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and disposition of the applicants’ petitions for writs of certiorari, if such writs are timely sought. Should the petitions for writs of certiorari be denied, this order shall terminate automatically. In the event the petitions for writs of certiorari are granted, the order shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court."
However, the nation's highest court permitted a more limited mandate that orders medical facilities that receive federal funds to force their employees to be vaccinated.
The Supreme Court's ruling vote was 6 to 3 in the case regarding the large employers, with all of the court's radical justices in dissent. In the health care case the ruling was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh defecting to the left-wing of the court.
The "real" Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas, in opposition to the majority ruling sided by left-leaning weathervane Justice Roberts, has issued a blistering dissent over the court's decision to allow the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for federally funded medical facilities and their workers to proceed.
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