Republican attorneys general and a conservative news site are fighting President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers, a government mandate that legal scholars …
Republican attorneys general and a conservative news site are fighting President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers, a government mandate that legal scholars say is unprecedented. “I don’t know of any federal vaccination mandate until COVID comes along,” said David Miller, a labor and employment law attorney with Bryant Miller Olive. “That is a core state police power area.” The challengers claim the requirement is a federal overreach. Mr. Biden has justified it as a final measure to push the minority of Americans still unvaccinated to get the shot, saying their refusal strains the nation’s health resources and puts them and vaccinated Americans alike at greater risk of catching the potentially deadly virus. The Daily Wire, a conservative news site, asked the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals to hear its challenge. The company argues the Biden administration is violating the Constitution and federal law by requiring private employers to mandate the shot for their employees — or else pay for weekly testing. The Daily Wire said it’s not the company’s place to know about its employees’ private health decisions. “The Daily Wire will not comply with President Biden’s tyrannical vaccine mandate, and we are suing the Biden administration to put a stop to their gross overreach,” said Jeremy Boreing, co-founder of the site.
