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UPHOLDS HEALTHCARE MANDATE

The Real Chief Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Alito Issue Blistering Dissents in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Ruling

by Kyle Becker about 4 hours ago



The “real” Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas, in opposition to the majority ruling sided by left-leaning weathervane Justice Roberts, has issued a blistering dissent over the court’s decision to allow the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federally funded medical facilities and their workers to proceed.


“Justice Thomas, with whom Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch, and Justice Barrett join, dissenting,” Thomas’s opinion states, before providing a brief background to the case. “Two months ago, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), issued an omnibus rule mandating that medical facilities nationwide order their employees, volunteers, contractors, and other workers to receive a COVID–19 vaccine. Covered employers must fire noncompliant workers or risk fines and termination of their Medicare and Medicaid provider agreements.”
“As a result, the Government has effectively mandated vaccination for 10 million healthcare workers,” the opinion continues. “Two District Courts preliminarily enjoined enforcement of the omnibus rule, and the Government now requests an emergency stay of those injunctions pending appeal. Because the Government has not made a strong showing that it has statutory authority to issue the rule, I too would deny a stay.”
The dissent then provides the legal reasoning.

“The Government has not made a strong showing that this [cited] hodgepodge of provisions authorizes a nationwide vaccine mandate,” Thomas stated. “We presume that Congress does not hide “fundamental details of a regulatory scheme in vague or ancillary provisions.”
“Yet here, the Government proposes to find virtually unlimited vaccination power, over millions of healthcare workers, in definitional provisions, a saving clause, and a provision regarding long-term care facilities’ sanitation procedures,” he went on. “The Government has not explained why Congress would have used these ancillary provisions to house what can only be characterized as a ‘fundamental detail’ of the statutory scheme. Had Congress wanted to grant CMS power to impose a vaccine mandate across all facility types, it would have done what it has done elsewhere—specifically authorize one.”

“Nonetheless, even if I were to accept that Congress could have hidden vaccine-mandate power in statutory definitions, the language in these ‘health and safety’ provisions does not suggest that Congress did so,” Thomas added.
“For its part, the Court does not rely on the Government’s proffered statutory provisions,” Thomas noted. “Instead, it asserts that CMS possesses broad vaccine-mandating authority by pointing to a handful of CMS regulations. To begin, the Court does
not explain why the bare existence of these regulations is evidence of what Congress empowered the agency to do. Relying on them appears to put the cart before the horse.”
“Regardless, these regulations provide scant support for the sweeping power the Government now claims,” Thomas argued.
Justice Alito concurred with Justice Thomas’s dissent and then gave a warning about the potential for further abuses of executive power.
“I join Justice Thomas’s dissent because I do not think that the Federal Government is likely to be able to show that Congress has authorized the unprecedented step of compelling over 10,000,000 healthcare workers to be vaccinated on pain of being fired.” Alito wrote. “The support for the argument that the Federal Government possesses such authority is so obscure that the main argument now pressed by the Government—that the authority is conferred by a hodgepodge of scattered provisions—was not prominently set out by the Government until its reply brief in this Court.”
“Before concluding that the Federal Government possesses this authority, we should demand stronger statutory proof than has been mustered to date,” Alito added. “But even if the Federal Government has the authority to require the vaccination of healthcare workers, it did not have the authority to impose that requirement in the way it did. Under our Constitution, the authority to make laws that impose obligations on the American people is conferredon Congress, whose Members are elected by the people.”
“Today, however, most federal law is not made by Congress,” Alito added. “It comes in the form of rules issued by unelected administrators. In order to give individuals and entities who may be seriously impacted by agency rules at least some opportunity to make their views heard and to have them given serious consideration, Congress has clearly required that agencies comply with basic procedural safeguards.”
“Although today’s ruling means only that the Federal Government is likely to be able to show that this departure is lawful, not that it actually is so, this ruling has an importance that extends beyond the confines of these cases,” Alito stated. “It may have a lasting effect on Executive Branch behavior.”
“Today’s decision will ripple through administrative agencies’ future decisionmaking,” Alito warned. “The Executive Branch already touches nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives.”
Earlier a court ruling had issued a stay on the healthcare facility case on the grounds that the federal government lacked authority and could not show that the vaccines stopped the spread of Covid.

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SCOTUS Blocks Dear Leader Biden’s Medical Tyranny

by JD Rucker
January 13, 2022
in News



The Supreme Court blocked the Biden-Harris regime’s attempt to mandate vaccines for businesses with 100 employees or more on Thursday, marking an extraordinary victory for medical freedom and sending shockwaves across the business world. It was a 6-3 decision.
But not everybody was protected by the ruling as medical personnel must still be forced into vaccine slavery. According to Just The News:
The court allowed a separate policy, that requires vaccinations for most health-care workers at facilities that receive Medicaid and Medicare funding, to stand. The court’s majority was doubtful that the administration possesses the legal authority to impose a workplace vaccine mandate.
Doubts were spreading on social media that a ruling would come down today, but the late-afternoon announcement allowed room for discussion on Friday ahead of a three-day weekend.

Early reactions on Twitter were predictable with vaxx-nannies crying foul and calling for Joe Biden to pack the supreme court while freedom-loving Americans rejoiced.



Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza

Big win on #vaccinemandates! No Biden federal mandate for private companies. Happily #SCOTUS comes through 6-3. No big deal the Court allowed mandates for federally-funded health care centers. We’ll give them a crumb if we can have the rest of the cake

2:48 PM · Jan 13, 2022



Harmeet K. Dhillon
@pnjaban

Did I call it or what? 6-3 enjoining the workplace mandate, but SCOTUS upholds CMS mandate. Great day for our client @realDailyWire, which our firm was honored to represent jointly w/@ADFLegal in the 6th Circuit and the Supreme Court. Workers able to choose for themselves.

2:43 PM · Jan 13, 2022



toddstarnes
@toddstarnes

BREAKING: Trump's Supreme Court justices save the U.S. Constitution from Biden's China Virus power grab. #SCOTUS

2:47 PM · Jan 13, 2022



Jenna Ellis
@JennaEllisEsq
·
Jan 13, 2022

BREAKING: SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN OSHA’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE!https://supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a244_hgci.pdf…



Jenna Ellis
@JennaEllisEsq

SCOTUS leaves in place the healthcare mandate, as many predicted. I think this is the right decision, a huge win and will discuss with @josh_hammer today.http://TheJennaEllisShow.com

2:39 PM · Jan 13, 2022

There is still plenty of work to be done as many companies have taken it upon themselves to mandate the jabs. But this ruling will prevent reluctant companies from being forced to comply with draconian measures.

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