{"id":1130862,"date":"2021-12-18T15:28:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T20:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130862"},"modified":"2021-12-18T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T20:28:55","slug":"legal-attacks-on-bidens-vaccine-mandate-reach-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legal-attacks-on-bidens-vaccine-mandate-reach-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Attacks On Biden\u2019s Vaccine Mandate Reach Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Flegal-attacks-on-bidens-vaccine-mandate-reach-supreme-court%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=1130862&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 readability=\"28.65671641791\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Challenges mount after lower court clears way for employer mandate<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236896398-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236896398-scaled-e1638292988644.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236896398-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236896398-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236896398-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236896398-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236896398-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236896398-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/kevin-daley\/\" title=\"Posts by Kevin Daley\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Kevin Daley<\/a> \u2022 December 18, 2021 1:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"116.80465428507\">\n<p>Legal attacks on President Joe Biden\u2019s employer vaccine mandate reached the Supreme Court Friday night after a federal appeals court cleared the way for its enforcement earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The justices were flooded with emergency appeals from red states and conservative legal groups within hours of the lower court\u2019s decision. The mandate requires 80 million workers to get vaccinated or wear masks and pay for weekly tests.<\/p>\n<p>The White House is warning employers to prepare for compliance with the mandate despite its uncertain legal prospects, sagging popularity, and relaxed enforcement guidance from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The pressure campaign is augmented by blue state authorities who are enforcing mask and vaccine mandates of their own in response to the latest COVID variant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Especially as the U.S. faces the highly transmissible Omicron variant, it\u2019s critical we move forward with vaccination requirements and protections for workers with the urgency needed in this moment,&#8221; White House spokesman Kevin Munoz said of the Sixth Circuit\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine disputes will dominate the High Court\u2019s work going into the new year. The employer mandate appeals arrived at the Supreme Court Friday alongside a separate dispute involving the Biden administration\u2019s vaccine rules for healthcare workers. Those rules, which cover 17 million workers, require any provider that takes money from Medicare or Medicaid to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4. Those rules are currently on hold in 24 states as a result of decisions from two different federal appeals courts.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jane Stranch delivered Friday\u2019s 2-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/548040607\/In-Re-MCP-165-OSHA-Covid-vaccine-rule-panel-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a> upholding the employer mandate. Stranch said the federal law that chartered OSHA gave the agency broad authority to fight &#8220;viruses.&#8221; And she framed the administration\u2019s rule as a flexible one that lets employers &#8220;choose the policy implementing those requirements that is best suited to their workplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The virus rages on, mutating into different variants, and posing new risks. Recognizing that the \u2018old normal\u2019 is not going to return, employers and employees have sought new models for a workplace that will protect the safety and health of employees,&#8221; Stranch wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Joan Larsen dissented from Stranch\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>OSHA announced a grace period for employers in a statement following Friday\u2019s decision. Employers have until Jan. 10 to comply with the rule. Testing requirements won\u2019t be enforced before Feb. 9.<\/p>\n<p>At least half a dozen appeals reached the Supreme Court on Friday night. Challengers include a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/548042287\/In-Re-MCP-165-red-state-stay-application\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coalition<\/a> of red states led by Ohio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/548041374\/Southern-Baptist-Theological-Seminary-v-OSHA-stay-application\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">religious<\/a> schools and homeschooling associations, and business groups like the Job Creators Network. Business groups say compliance costs the rule imposes are especially burdensome as they grapple with the double whammy of inflation and staffing shortages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This mandate will make it even harder for small business owners to find and keep employees,&#8221; Job Creators Network president Alfredo Ortiz said. &#8220;The 6th Circuit irresponsibly upheld an illegal rule and expects employers to somehow comply with a complicated regulation in a period of two weeks, including the holidays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many of the appeals draw heavily from a dissent Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton handed down on Wednesday, which argues the mandate is an unjustified federal overreach. Sutton\u2019s opinion will likely be <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/top-judge-deals-blow-to-bidens-employer-vaccine-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influential<\/a> at the High Court, and it provides a useful roadmap for justices inclined to strike the mandate down.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear how the justices will proceed. Using ordinary emergency procedures, they could resolve the dispute in a matter of days relying on legal briefs alone, and might give a short explanation for the ultimate result.<\/p>\n<p>But the Court\u2019s emergency procedures have come under sustained criticism of late, primarily from leftwing sources, and they appear to have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/alito-rebuffs-dem-claims-that-supreme-court-abuses-emergency-appeals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rankled<\/a> some members of the Court. As such, the justices might schedule an oral argument and issue a lengthier decision, which would likely take several weeks. The justices <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/supreme-court-fast-tracks-challenges-to-texas-abortion-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">followed<\/a> that route earlier this year in emergency cases involving Texas\u2019 novel abortion law.<\/p>\n<p>Several plaintiffs groups expressed openness to the second route, including the red state coalition and the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative cause lawyering group representing religious institutions fighting the mandate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts Challenges mount after lower court clears way for employer mandate  Getty Images  Kevin Daley \u2022 December 18, 2021 1:20 pm Legal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}