It was reported that former Vice President Mike Pence and his political action group is taking action against the Biden administration at the Supreme Court. The Advancing American Freedom group filed an amicus brief arguing that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is exceeding its authority from Congress and used an emergency temporary standard as a “shortcut” around the normal rulemaking process, The Washington Times reported.
The former vice president also argued that the Biden mandate that demands companies that have 100 or more employees to figure out who is unvaccinated and test them week is going to cause issues in the workplace.
“America is about freedom and the ability to make the best decision for your family or business, and Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate must be stopped in its tracks in order to preserve freedom, protect American livelihoods and businesses, and to safeguard our Constitution,” he said.
The amicus brief said the advocacy group took a look at past emergency actions by OSHA and found that none of them attempted to require or coerce employees “to undertake a medical procedure (a vaccination) that cannot be undone at the end of the workday.”
The White House counters that while vaccination would make workers’ lives easier under the rule, the new standard amounts to a weekly testing requirement and does not actually compel a person to get injected with the vaccine.
The Supreme Court is taking up Mr. Biden’s OSHA rule after a volley of decisions in the lower courts. One appeals court stayed the ruling for a period before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit lifted the stay, prompting the justices to take up the issue. The U.S. Supreme Court announced in December that it will hear oral arguments on January 7, 2022, in two separate challenges to Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandates.
