{"id":1781825,"date":"2022-12-20T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781825"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:33:32","slug":"court-rules-against-white-house-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-rules-against-white-house-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Rules Against White House COVID Vaccine Mandate For Federal Contractors"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcourt-rules-against-white-house-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-contractors%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=1781825&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>The Biden administration cannot enforce its COVID vaccine mandate on federal contractors, according to a ruling on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the mandate in a 2-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/22\/22-30019-CV0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s use of procurement regulations to reach through an employing contractor to force obligations on individual employees is truly unprecedented,\u201d the ruling concluded. \u201cAs such, Executive Order 14042 is unlawful, and the Plaintiff States have consequently demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on the merits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ruling also noted the concern of government overreach, citing a lack of congressional involvement to approve the Biden administration\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress has not spoken clearly to authorize such a dramatic shift in the exercise of the President\u2019s power under the Procurement Act,\u201d the ruling concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Judge James Graves dissented in the ruling, citing the decision as the first time an executive order under the Procurement Act was struck down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen actions taken are in the mainstream of American businesses, that points towards permitting the executive order,\u201d he wrote. \u201cEconomic factors would prevent the president from handicapping the contractor workforce with extreme contractual terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The states of Indiana, Louisiana, and Mississippi filed the case. In December 2021, a district court blocked enforcement of the mandate against federal contractors.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has contracts with thousands of companies, with the coronavirus vaccine mandate potentially impacting up to 20% of America\u2019s workforce, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/appeals-court-says-us-cannot-mandate-federal-contractor-covid-19-vaccines-2022-12-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is a victory for freedom,\u201d Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ag.state.la.us\/Article\/13102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. \u201cWe will continue to stand up against the Biden Administration\u2019s abuses of power that threaten us now and in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October, the White House directed federal agencies not to seek enforcement of the federal contractor mandate due to court rulings.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-federal-judge-blocks-biden-from-implementing-vaccine-mandate-on-federal-contractors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in November 2021, a federal judge in Kentucky also issued a preliminary injunction against the vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The case is one of the multiple recent examples of COVID vaccine mandates that have faced recent legal challenges. On Monday, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/court-grants-10-3-million-settlement-to-health-care-workers-denied-religious-exemptions-for-covid-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved<\/a> a class action settlement of more than $10 million for workers at an Illinois healthcare system whose religious exemptions against taking the vaccine were rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter many months and long hours, we are pleased to finally get the court\u2019s final approval of this classwide settlement for these health care workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate,\u201d Liberty Counsel Vice President of Legal Affairs and Chief Litigation Counsel Harry Mihet, whose organization represented the health care workers, said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lc.org\/newsroom\/details\/121922-court-grants-final-approval-in-dollar103-million-settlement-for-health-care-workers-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration cannot enforce its COVID vaccine mandate on federal contractors, according to a ruling on Monday. A 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the mandate in a 2-1 decision. \u201cThe President\u2019s use of procurement regulations to reach through an employing contractor to force obligations on individual employees is truly unprecedented,\u201d the ruling &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1781828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10359,4733,4127,6202,3974,3653,5527,3807,3954,3765,6195],"class_list":["post-1781825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-contractors","tag-court","tag-covid","tag-daily","tag-federal","tag-house","tag-mandate","tag-rules","tag-vaccine","tag-white","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781825","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}