{"id":1154113,"date":"2021-12-25T13:04:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T18:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1154113"},"modified":"2021-12-25T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T18:04:52","slug":"federal-judge-sides-with-florida-says-reasons-for-biden-vax-mandate-for-federal-contractors-unexplained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-sides-with-florida-says-reasons-for-biden-vax-mandate-for-federal-contractors-unexplained\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Sides With Florida, Says Reasons For Biden Vax Mandate For Federal Contractors \u2018Unexplained\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ffederal-judge-sides-with-florida-says-reasons-for-biden-vax-mandate-for-federal-contractors-unexplained%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=1154113&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--><p>A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday sided with the state against the Biden administration, putting in place a temporary injunction against the federal government\u2019s vaccine mandate for federal contractors.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday issued a 38-page opinion that challenged the Biden administration\u2019s justifications for the sweeping mandate, which would require the employees of all agencies and businesses that contract with the federal government to be vaccinated against COVID-19 with limited exceptions. Merryday\u2019s opinion has little practical impact since a federal judge in Georgia issued an injunction against Biden\u2019s mandate earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extent of any absenteeism attributable to COVID-19 among contractors and subcontractors is unexplained,\u201d Merryday wrote, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article256815767.html#storylink=mainstage_card6\">News Service of Florida<\/a>. \u201cThe frequency and duration of any procurement delay attributable to COVID-19 is unexplained. The extent of any cost increases attributable to COVID-19 is unexplained. In other words, the extent of any procurement problem, past or future, attributable to COVID-19 is undemonstrated and is merely a hastily manufactured but unproven hypothesis about recent history and a contrived speculation about the future. Obviously, no massive extension and expansion of presidential power is necessary to cure a non-existent problem and certainly neither \u2018good cause\u2019 nor \u2018urgent and compelling circumstances\u2019 exists to justify summary disregard of the requirements of administrative law and rulemaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-trolls-biden-by-signing-bills-against-vaccine-mandates-in-brandon-florida\">signed<\/a> legislation outlawing vaccine mandates in his state in a direct challenge to President Joe Biden\u2019s mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the United States of America,\u201d DeSantis said at a signing ceremony in Brandon, Florida. \u201cThe states are the primary vehicles to protect people\u2019s freedoms; their health, their safety, their welfare, and our Constitutional system. What Biden is doing is not constitutional. There has never been a federal vaccine mandate imposed on the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later in response to a lawsuit from Georgia over the vaccine mandate, U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judge-halts-biden-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-contractors\">issued<\/a> a nationwide injunction against the mandate for federal contractors. While Baker\u2019s order was not the first injunction over the mandate, it was the first to cover the entire U.S., temporarily nullifying Biden\u2019s order that was set to take effect on January 4.<\/p>\n<p>Federal attorneys attempted to get Florida\u2019s lawsuit dismissed by arguing that the state lacked standing to sue over the vaccine mandate. Merryday disagreed, citing the conflict between state law and Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in his opinion. He used the University of Florida as an example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Florida\u2019s reply shows, the University of Florida, for example, is trapped in a bind,\u201d Merryday wrote. \u201cIf the federal government awards a contract proposal subject to the executive order, the university\u2019s compliance with the mandatory clause will conflict with the university\u2019s duty to obey state law prohibiting a vaccination requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsent a preliminary injunction, the defendants\u2019 challenged actions will force each state agency to comply with Florida law and lose existing and prospective contracts,\u201d the judge continued. \u201cIf a state agency forgoes the opportunity to contract with the federal government, no judicial relief can remedy the loss. Even a state agency\u2019s hesitation \u2014 in deference to state law \u2014 to acquiesce to the defendant\u2019s request to modify an existing contract might sour and end present and prospective contracts that benefit Florida and the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday sided with the state against the Biden administration, putting in place a temporary injunction against the federal government\u2019s vaccine mandate for federal contractors. U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday issued a 38-page opinion that challenged the Biden administration\u2019s justifications for the sweeping mandate, which would require the employees of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"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-1154113","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\/1154113","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154113\/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=1154113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}