Thread by @RepChipRoy

From Rep. Roy:

"Today, the Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s blatantly unconstitutional OSHA vaccine mandate for workers across the country. This was the correct decision.

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"The OSHA mandate was a clear overreach by a President desperate to move forward on his failing political agenda – no matter how many lives and livelihoods might have been destroyed.

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"As Justice Gorsuch wrote, '…Congress has chosen not to afford OSHA—or any federal agency—the authority to issue a vaccine mandate. Indeed, a majority of the Senate even voted to disapprove OSHA’s regulation. ...

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"'...It seems, too, that the agency pursued its regulatory initiative only as a legislative ‘workaround.'” The American people have had more than enough of the tyrannical and unlawful policies forced on them in the supposed name of public health.

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"I am, however, disappointed to see the Court — particularly Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh — simultaneously uphold President Biden’s mandate forcing certain healthcare workers to be vaccinated.

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Our healthcare workers were upheld as heroes during the early pandemic; now they face the threat of losing their livelihoods over a bureaucratic edict that does nothing to slow the spread of this virus. Biden does not have the power to do this.

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"As Justice Thomas wrote, 'if Congress had wanted to grant CMS authority to impose a nationwide vaccine mandate, and consequently alter the state-federal balance, it would have said so clearly. It did not.'

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"Whether or not government funding is involved – it is simply morally wrong to take away the livelihoods of Americans for choosing to control and own their own medical decisions.

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"I hope that the CMS decision has shown many of my fellow Republicans the folly of punting the question of these mandates to the court, and I encourage more of them to join me in fighting to defund any and all federal government COVID-19 mandates going forward."

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