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#SCOTUS hands down its ruling on #Biden admin #COVID19 safety mandates, and it's classic anti-Federalist "law" that could open the floodgates on all public health efforts. The majority of Justices ruled that Biden can mandate #vaccination and/or masking in...
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#SCOTUS hands down its ruling on #Biden admin #COVID19 safety mandates, and it's classic anti-Federalist "law" that could open the floodgates on all public health efforts. The majority of Justices ruled that Biden can mandate #vaccination and/or masking in...
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2/ healthcare facilities that receive fedl $ (#Medicare & #Medicaid), BUT can NOT issue mandates in the private sector. Specifically, #SCOTUS blocked #Biden reg that employers w/100+ workers require either 💉 or 😷 of all staff.
Majority opinion:
“Although #Congress ..."
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Majority opinion:
“Although #Congress ..."
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"...has indisputably given #OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly. Requiring the #vaccination of 84M Americans, selected simply because they work for employers with more..."
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"...has indisputably given #OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly. Requiring the #vaccination of 84M Americans, selected simply because they work for employers with more..."
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"...than 100 employees, certainly falls in the latter category."
If the federal leadership cannot legally require interventions in a declared national public health emergency, so that there's NO national strategy for tackling a disease, what else might crumble?
Child vax?
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"...than 100 employees, certainly falls in the latter category."
If the federal leadership cannot legally require interventions in a declared national public health emergency, so that there's NO national strategy for tackling a disease, what else might crumble?
Child vax?
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Attacking Federalism as a principle to tear down national public health leadership, leaving each State to do as it wishes, could not only undermine a long list of @CDCgov @HHSGov activities, but open up attack on fedl anti-pollution, food & water safety, smog control.
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Attacking Federalism as a principle to tear down national public health leadership, leaving each State to do as it wishes, could not only undermine a long list of @CDCgov @HHSGov activities, but open up attack on fedl anti-pollution, food & water safety, smog control.
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It's only been minutes since #SCOTUS ruling came down, not a lot of time to reflect, but at this moment the ramifications of the decision for national public health and safety efforts seem to me to be devastating.
We await analysis from wise legal experts.
@rgoodlaw @tribelaw
It's only been minutes since #SCOTUS ruling came down, not a lot of time to reflect, but at this moment the ramifications of the decision for national public health and safety efforts seem to me to be devastating.
We await analysis from wise legal experts.
@rgoodlaw @tribelaw
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