{"id":1026744,"date":"2021-11-18T08:58:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1026744"},"modified":"2021-11-18T08:58:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:58:51","slug":"montana-leads-12-states-in-lawsuit-against-bidens-vaccine-mandate-for-health-care-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/montana-leads-12-states-in-lawsuit-against-bidens-vaccine-mandate-for-health-care-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Leads 12 States in Lawsuit Against Biden\u2019s Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmontana-leads-12-states-in-lawsuit-against-bidens-vaccine-mandate-for-health-care-workers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1026744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1230169189-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Montana leads a coalition of 12 states in a lawsuit to stop President Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate for health care workers.<\/p>\n<p>On November 5, The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) published an interim final rule requiring certain medicare and Medicaid staff to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The CMS rule came on the same day the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a rule requiring businesses with 100 or more employees to mandate vaccines or implement frequent testing procedures. However, unlike the OSHA rule, the CMS rule provides no testing alternative to the 17 million health care workers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>OSHA recently suspended enforcement of its vaccine requirement until pending litigation is finished after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reaffirmed its stay of the mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is joined by attorneys general for the states of Louisiana, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia. In addition, the&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/media.dojmt.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/CMS-Mandate-Complaint-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;names the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), CMS, and their respective leaders, Xavier Becerra and Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, as defendants. Knudsen said in a&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/dojmt.gov\/attorney-general-knudsen-leads-multi-state-lawsuit-against-biden-healthcare-worker-jab-or-job-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement:<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>President Biden\u2019s trio of COVID vaccine mandates is an unconstitutional power grab and intrusion into Montanans\u2019 lives. Federal judges have already blocked one mandate from going into effect, and the mandate for healthcare workers should be no different. The federal mandates are not about health \u2013 they are about forced compliance. Healthcare workers should be allowed to make their own decisions about their health \u2013 not President Biden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges the CMS rule violates its statutory authority, the Social Security Act, the Spending Clause, the anti-commandeering doctrine, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Tenth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 states seek a preliminary&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/dojmt.gov\/attorney-general-knudsen-leads-multi-state-lawsuit-against-biden-healthcare-worker-jab-or-job-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">injunction<\/a>&nbsp;to prevent CMS from implementing its mandate, arguing that it would cause economic injuries and harm to each state\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Knudsen warned the mandate would harm rural Montana because the already short-staffed health care facilities would lose more than one-third of their staff who remain unvaccinated. The lawsuit reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>By forcing a significant number of healthcare workers to take the shot(s) or exit the Medicare and Medicaid workforce, CMS\u2019s Vaccine Mandate harms access to (and thus quality of) patient care. His \u2018one- size-fits-all sledgehammer\u2019 expressly undermines the Social Security Act\u2019s singular focus on providing access to care.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Vaccine Mandate causes grave danger to the vulnerable persons whom Medicare and Medicaid were designed to protect\u2014the poor, children, sick, and the elderly\u2014by forcing the termination of millions of essential \u2018healthcare heroes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montana Attorney General Knudsen relies heavily on the recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision reaffirming a stay on Biden\u2019s OSHA vaccine mandate. The Motion for Preliminary Injunction&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/dojmt.gov\/attorney-general-knudsen-leads-multi-state-lawsuit-against-biden-healthcare-worker-jab-or-job-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>Just like the now-stayed OSHA ETS\u2014which \u2018commandeers U.S. employers to compel millions of employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or bear the burden of weekly testing. The Vaccine Mandate violates this doctrine by requiring Plaintiff States\u2019 state-run hospitals covered by the Mandate to either fire their unvaccinated employees or lose all Medicare and Medicaid funding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The case is <em>Montana v. Becerra<\/em>&nbsp;and has not yet been assigned a docket number in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana leads a coalition of 12 states in a lawsuit to stop President Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate for health care workers. 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