Attorneys General from 7 States File Lawsuit Challenging Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
(Conservative Brief, Nov 9, 2021)
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III announced that a coalition of seven attorneys general has filed a lawsuit against “the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for private-sector employees.”
Slatery III, along with attorneys general from Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, filed the petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
“The coalition asks the court to review the emergency temporary standard issued by the Biden Administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which requires the vaccination of tens of millions of citizens,” the release states.
“As we anticipated, the mandate asserts an unprecedented expansion of emergency regulatory powers by a federal agency,” Slatery III said in the release.
“Its scope and breadth is only exceeded by its length (about 500 pages). It also fails to consider the many steps already taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by individuals, employers, and our state,” the press release added.
The release states that Congress delegated power to issue temporary emergency standards to OSHA “for the express purpose of protecting employees from grave dangers posed by exposure to substances like physically harmful chemicals or asbestos encountered at work.”
The release adds: “That authority does not extend to risks that are equally prevalent at work and in society at large.”