President Joe Biden just can’t seem to catch a break. Only eight days after the Supreme Court set fire to the president’s vaccine mandate requiring companies with more than 100 employees to force their workers to get vaxxed, a federal judge has ruled that he could not compel federal personnel to take the jab.
Newsmax reported:
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown said in his Friday order that at issue was whether the president “can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment.”
He added, “That, under the current state of the law as just recently expressed by the Supreme Court, is a bridge too far.”
Feds for Medical Freedom brought the lawsuit against the federal vax mandate.
Federal judge places a preliminary injunction (a block) on a Biden executive order, saying that order “amounts to a presidential mandate that all federal employees consent to vaccination against COVID-19 or lose their jobs” but that “the President’s authority is not that broad.” pic.twitter.com/WTVwldDHV7
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) January 21, 2022
The judge stressed that his ruling was predicated on President Biden’s lack of authority to issue the mandate and not “about whether folks should get vaccinated,” indicating that “the court believes they should.”
According to the White House, the vast majority of federal workers are in compliance with this mandate. Around 92.5 percent have had at least one injection.
In November, the first federal employee mandate was put into effect as part of an array of measures the Biden government enacted to stop the spread the coronavirus. These rules were enacted by the President from the moment he announced that he was doing so. He received a lot of criticism, mostly from the left. Forbes noted that “[t]he controversial mandates have faced heavy pushback in court—even as they remain largely popular with the American public—and judges have now ruled at some point against all four orders.”
When the Supreme Court stayed Biden’s mandate on businesses, it allowed the requirement for healthcare workers to stand. The Department of Justice declared it would appeal Judge Brown’s ruling.
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