{"id":1197658,"date":"2022-01-07T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197658"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:20:14","slug":"amy-coney-barrett-asks-key-covid-19-question-when-will-the-emergency-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amy-coney-barrett-asks-key-covid-19-question-when-will-the-emergency-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett Asks Key COVID-19 Question: When Will The Emergency End?"},"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\">24<\/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%2Famy-coney-barrett-asks-key-covid-19-question-when-will-the-emergency-end%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=1197658&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>On Friday, the United States Supreme Court&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-oral-arguments-begin-in-the-daily-wires-challenge-against-bidens-vaccine-mandate\">heard oral arguments<\/a> in a case challenging the Biden administration\u2019s federal COVID-19 vaccine or test mandate for employers with more than 100 employees. During questioning, Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed attorneys arguing in favor of President Joe Biden\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, enforced through the federal government\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as to how long OSHA expected the emergency to last, thus giving the federal agency authority to enact the mandate without comment from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2022\/01\/biden-vaccine-policies-face-supreme-court-test-amid-nationwide-covid-19-surge\/\">SCOTUS Blog pointed<\/a> out, Elizabeth Prelogar, the U.S. Solicitor General arguing on behalf of the Biden administration, maintains that OSHA is simply exercising \u201cthe power that Congress gave it under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, which directs OSHA to issue emergency rules when it determines that a rule is \u2018necessary\u2019 to protect employees from a \u2018grave danger\u2019 from exposure to \u2018physically harmful\u2019 \u2018agents\u2019\/or \u2018new hazards\u201d because COVID-19 meets those comments and threatens unvaccinated workers.<\/p>\n<p>As for why OSHA can enact this without comment from Congress, OSHA\u2019s \u201cemergency rules can go into effect immediately, without the notice-and-comment procedures normally required for agency rulemaking,\u201d SCOTUS Blog added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Barrett pressured pro-mandate attorneys as to when the emergency would end so that Congress could formally weigh in on the OSHA ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen does the emergency end? I mean, a lot of this argument has been about Congress\u2019s failure to act. Two years from now, do we have any reason to think that COVID will be gone or that new variants might not be emerging?\u201d Coney Barrett asked, \u201cAnd when, when must OSHA actually resort to its regular authority and go through notice and comment and not simply be kind of doing it in this quick way, which doesn\u2019t afford people, the voice in the process that there are otherwise entitled to?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think if I could respond to that in a few different ways,\u201d Prelogar responded. \u201cCongress defined when the emergency exists, it labeled this an emergency temporary standard, but it\u2019s dictated by the statutory requirements so there has to be a grave danger from a physically harmful agent or a new hazard, and the measures have to be necessary to protect against that danger. And we don\u2019t think that there\u2019s an additional free-floating requirement about the emergency status that has to be taken into account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it could be an emergency two more years from now?\u201d Coney Barrett asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I certainly take the point that the emergency can be of substantial duration,\u201d Prelogar said. \u201cOf course, this is not a way to, to bypass, notice and comment permanently. Congress, further specify that the agency is expected to conduct a rule-making process over six months And that\u2019s why the agency estimated the lives saved, the hospitalizations prevented over the six-month life of the rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure, but I was envisioning a new rule,\u201d Coney Barrett pushed back. \u201cTwo years from now, OSHA might two years from now adopt something that\u2019s different from this vaccine or mask and test mandate. I\u2019m just talking about the limits more generally on OSHA\u2019s power under the ETS provision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe limits I think are the ones written into the statute. And so if you want to project out two years from now, I think it\u2019s entirely possible of course, that the trajectory of the pandemic will change. I certainly hope so. And in that case, OSHA, I think would have to, if it wanted to regulate again, cross that the high burden of showing a grave danger,\u201d Prelogar said, before adding that issuing a stay on the current order would harm Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Keller, former Texas solicitor general arguing on behalf of the anti-mandate plaintiffs, responded to Prelogar\u2019s argument by saying \u201cit\u2019s unreasonable to assume that Congress gave OSHA unprecedented power over American industry and the emergency power is also narrowly circumscribed yet here OSHA has never, before done mandated vaccines or widespread testing, much less over all industries or on an emergency basis,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo whether we\u2019re talking about the agency\u2019s failure to explain, whether we\u2019re talking about the statutory term necessary, whether we\u2019re talking about how this has to be tethered to the workplace, under the major questions doctrine \u2014 under any one of those theories, we are likely to succeed on the merits,\u201d he claimed regarding why his side is constitutionally correct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd finally, when it comes to the public interest, as this court just recognized a few months ago,\u201d he added, it is undisputable that the public has a strong interest in combating the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant but our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in pursuit of desirable ends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that the court may issue a stay on the mandate or rule by Monday whether or not the OSHA rule is constitutional, as requested by the anti-mandate plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the United States Supreme Court\u00a0heard oral arguments in a case challenging the Biden administration\u2019s federal COVID-19 vaccine or test mandate for employers with more than 100 employees. 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