If you’ve not heard the news, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the four Circuit Courts to receive lawsuits against the OSHA Biden Vax Mandate, has blocked the rule while the case proceeds.
“Petitioners said the mandate, promulgated as an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), should be struck down because it exceeds OSHA’s authority under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
BREAKING: The Federal Court of Appeals just issued a temporary halt to Biden’s vaccine mandate.
Emergency hearings will take place soon.
We will have our day in court to strike down Biden’s unconstitutional abuse of authority. pic.twitter.com/8utmU05vw3
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 6, 2021
Twenty-five states have filed in four circuit courts to prevent any private employer mandate from coming into force. Something I suggested yesterday might have actually been both expected (by the White House) and for which they planned.
Let’s say the courts manage to freeze the order while the cases work their way through the Circuits to the Supreme Court. During the next 4-6 months we will have floundered through another flu season. People will get sick, and some will die, just like every flu season.
And these states and their governors and backers will get smeared relentlessly over it.
The CDC’s reporting has been suspect all long, as has similar data coming out of liberal cities and states. Cases and deaths, and hey, we need these restrictions. But when compared to data out of Red and Purple states, there’s no statistical difference. Those with few or no restrictions or mandates have not had a higher incidence of cases, hospitalizations, or deaths.
Even the pandemic of the unvaccinated narrative has failed to stand up to scrutiny.
States without mandates are not worse off overall than the state’s pushing them.
There is one fundamental distinction. Despite the absence of differences in public health outcomes, the states with fewer or no mandates or restrictions are freer. Their citizen’s rights have been secured or more secure. In some cases, Governors have stood up to push back against the federal government.
Imagine that? A sovereign state is pushing back against the overreach of the government it created.
Twenty-five of them are telling OSHA and the White House, no, we want people to decide, not the government.
And the other twenty-five?
