The Most Lawless Court in the Country Won’t Let Biden Vaccinate His Own Workforce
BY Dahlia Lithwick & Mark Joseph Stern https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/fifth-circuit-blocks-biden-executive-branch-vaccinations.html #SCOTUS #texasfifthcircuit #trumpjudge #slate @Dahlialith
"Vaccinate his workforce" is a phrase that would be bad enough if it described just any employer treating workers as a herd to be lines up and medicated, but it's especially problematic when the employer is a government official.
The courts have been respecting laws against that sort of thing.
We're just not all so comfortable with such power imbalances.
Well that's just factually wrong.
This case, which I will link below so you can read for yourself, is about what multiple courts should do when a president reaches for unilateral power over broad swaths of the population.
It has little to do with vaccines themselves. This is about power, pure and simple, and about the rule of law.
Here multiple courts have told the president that if he wants to assert these powers then he has to go through the legal processes, that he can't just ignore the law and do what he wants.
Again, read for yourself here, and for goodness sake, stop going to places like Slate for honest argument.
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/22/22-40043-CV3.pdf
@volkris
Wake up Volk.
How Trump reshaped the fifth circuit to become the ‘most extreme’ US court
Ultra-conservative lawyers seek to have their cases heard in the fifth circuit in hope of a favourable ruling https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/nov/15/fifth-circuit-court-appeals-most-extreme-us
And. Its just stupid that you think its just fine to spread a deadly virus around. Its 2023, not 1823..
@volkris @Dahlialith
Vaccines allowed the country to go back to work. Anti-vax rhetoric is conspiracy, unAmerican, unpatriotic rhetoric. Thank God for the vaccines.
And this court oversteps its mandate again here. They are judge shopping pandering to a minority of radicalized right wing faction. It is a minority dictating its pseudo-scientific superstition & pablum to the entire nation.
Anti vax extremists threaten the health of everyone. They don't belong in the courts either.