Happy New Year! Fed Court Smacks Down Joe Biden With Yet Another Vaccine Mandate Loss – Opinion

Joe Biden hasn’t been doing well in general with his vaccine mandates in the courts.

Biden lost another battle Friday evening when a federal court ruled in favor of his mandatory vaccine and mask mandates to Texas Head Start programs. Biden tried to mandate vaccination for all adults, and almost universal masking of children aged over 2 years.

The opinion found that the Biden Administration couldn’t act without congressional authorization.

The court also noted that it “concludes that there is a substantial likelihood that the mandates do not fit within the Head Start Act’s authorizing text, that HHS failed to follow the APA in promulgating the mandates and that the mandates are arbitrary and capricious,” and stated that it “preliminarily enjoins their enforcement in Texas.”

Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the decision. Greg Abbott, Texas Governor, and Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated their decision.

BREAKING: Texas just beat Biden again.

Another of Biden’s vaccine & mask mandates was just halted by a federal judge in Texas.

The Court writes: “It is undisputed that an agency cannot act without Congressional authorization.”

That would apply to all of Biden’s orders. pic.twitter.com/dqmDLGxR9j

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 1, 2022

Paxton said this was a win for the children of Texas, that Biden didn’t have the statutory or constitutional authority to do what he did and that parents should be making such decisions — not Joe Biden.

Paxton said, “I think parents are going to be glad they get to make the decision. This is a victory for freedom in America.”

“Hopefully, the Biden administration will lay down their sword and stop jabbing at parents and kids and just let this thing stand,” Paxton added. “I’m sure they won’t. … They think they should make the choice for these children and for these parents.”

Is Joe Biden going to learn his lesson and stop the mandates now that he’s conceded there’s no “federal solution”, and now that his administration seems to be shifting the narrative? He hasn’t yet. He may soon get a bigger message.

Biden has had one win – in the Sixth Circuit, where the court lifted the stay on the OSHA rule that demands that employers with over 100 employees must impose a vaccine mandate or testing requirement. SCOTUS is expected to hear that appeal on appeal. Oral arguments will take place on January 7. They will also be hearing another big case — the order by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services that all health care workers in facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid payments must get the vaccine. One has to think that’s not going to go well for Biden.

When Biden is handed a loss there, he wouldn’t have anything left in his quiver. Apart from the mandates, his “plan” has consisted of shifting and changing “guidance,” and things like bringing the Jonas Brothers and dancing nurses into the White House. If he can’t force people to do what he wants, he doesn’t know what else to do.

Biden is not only harming and costing jobs by the mandate push but he has also endangered lives by denial monoclonal antibodies treatments to states when they require them. He has also imposed arbitrary rules that don’t make sense such as cutting off anti-Delta variant antibody treatment because Omicron has increased, which would have been extremely absurd. How can you refuse treatment for anyone that could benefit? But that’s the Biden Administration. There isn’t a lot of sense there.