As I mentioned this morning, this is a busy week for me, so posting may be spotty. In line with that this is only a brief notice of an important development. I first noticed this at Powerline, so I’ll link to that account, with a brief excerpt. I’m sure there will be discussion elsewhere, but this is good enough. It’s good news both for the people in those states—consider the situation in WI that we referred to this morning—as well as marking a principled ruling against Administrative State/Covid Regime overreach. Hopefully this means the judiciary’s voice will finally be heard:
Judge halts vaccine mandate for health workers in ten states
(Paul Mirengoff)
A Missouri federal judge, Matthew Schelp, has just issued an order temporarily blocking the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for health care workers in ten states. The states are Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. These are the states whose attorneys general filed the lawsuit in question.
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The granting of a temporary injunction is not, of course, a final ruling on the merits. However, the standard for such a grant requires an inquiry into whether the parties seeking the injunction are likely to succeed on the merits.
Judge Schlep, a Trump appointee, apparently sees the likelihood of success by the ten states to be substantial. He stated:
Congress did not clearly authorize CMS to enact this politically and economically vast, federalism-altering, and boundary-pushing mandate, which Supreme Court precedent requires.
Judge Halts Vax Mandates For Health Workers
Related:
https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/29/white-house-delays-enforcing-vaxx-coercion-after-claiming-urgency-for-months/
"The White House is directing federal agencies to halt suspending or firing employees over the COVID-19 jab despite promoting mandates as urgent for months."