Earlier today a federal judge enjoined the Supreme Court decision against a federal mandate for private companies and expanded a nationwide injunction against the federal mandate for federal employees and contractors.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction on Friday barring the federal government from enforcing President Joe Biden’s requirement that federal workers without qualifying medical or religious exemptions be vaccinated for COVID-19.
Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by then-President Donald Trump, ruled that opponents of Biden’s vaccination mandate for federal employees were likely to succeed at trial and blocked the government from enforcing the requirement.
Biden announced in September that more than 3.5 million federal workers were required to undergo vaccination, with no option to get regularly tested instead, unless they secured approved medical or religious exemptions. The requirement kicked in this past November, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that 98% of federal workers are vaccinated.
“We are confident in our legal authority here,” she added.
Those out of compliance with the policy were referred to counseling and could be terminated under an executive order signed by Biden.
Brown wrote that at issue was whether the president “can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment.” He added, “That, under the current state of the law as just recently expressed by the Supreme Court, is a bridge too far.”
The Justice Department said it would appeal the ruling. (more)
Not to worry….
Roberts and Kavanaugh will fxxxck us over when it gets to the Supreme Court Jesters.
I never understood why no one uses Judge Clarence Thomas as a template of what we should be putting on the bench.
He is the GOLD standard…democrats called him every name in the book during the nomination process..it was ugly….Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden led the racist attacks for their democrat racist party.
Earlier today a federal judge enjoined the Supreme Court decision against a federal mandate for private companies and expanded a nationwide injunction against the federal mandate for federal employees and contractors.
It should. Truckers
The timing is EXCELLENT.
I don’t have the skills but I’m surprised some real talented person hasn’t modified the ubiquitous Fuehrer bunker scene clip to reflect what happens in the Obama 3.0 White House each time one of these recalcitrant jurists hits their backside with a yardstick.
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There are a lot of young people looking for it to hit bottom. They then intend to buy in.
Let them. it’s a suckers game when it does hit bottom. They be lucky if it ever goes back up to where they see a profit. TPTB will make sure of it. This is about denying he middleclass any opportunity to make it beyond Thunderdome.
With what? They can’t afford cars or homes..
They will buy in. Then the elites will manipulate the markets to take it from them too.
I don’t understand why so many of my fellow treepers are confused about the vax mandate as it pertains to truckers??? That order came down from the DHS and applies to border crossings. It has nothing to do with private companies, government contractors or federal employees, it has everything to do with being allowed to cross the border regardless of your essential/non-essential job status which they effectively revoked in that order. The pain is coming people, Sundance has been warning us for a long time, get your house in order.
George H.W.Bush, Republican , DHS.
The pain is coming, but not to us.
Aren’t unjabbed, illegal border crossers coming into the USA by the thousands every day?
Can some please clarify?
how can anyone be watching this and think biden’s doing the right thing?
There are two different conversations going on.
Some people are reacting to the Texas Federal Judge’s ruling about federal employees that stops the vaccine mandates for them. Its separate, but of course, highlights the folly of this border order.
Biden, Psaki, Obama, and crew need to give up on the mandates. Its over. Over for federal employees, private employees, truckers crossing the border, and everyone. They are having a hard time keeping up with the legal rulings and the politics.
To use a tree metaphor perhaps appropriate for us treepers: Its like they are on a branch of a tree and the branch is weak and getting weaker and they keep going further out on the branch instead of coming back to the safety of the trunk.
Britain, CzechRepublic, Ireland ended wuhuflu mandates on everything… however, the devil’s army rests
Unforunately, there are a lot of “fat ladies” out there who are still singing as loud as can be that the unvaxed MUST go to camps & be reprogrammed or go without any medical treatment of any kind ever again. Howard Stein said so. And all major newscasters in Democrat cities agree. Combine that with white people are racists, again reiterated daily by the MSM, & you have the perfect formula for taking out 50% plus of U.S. citizens who also happen to be conservatives or at worst moderates, in all things.
“Biden announced in September that more than 3.5 million federal workers were required to undergo vaccination, with no option to get regularly tested instead.”
Did the federal contractors include both the national security and military?
I wonder, how many of the 3.5 million asked and received medical or religious exemptions?
Did the federal workers receive the same vaccine, as that pushed on the American public?
3-5 MILLION FEDERAL workers!!!!!!!!!
That right there is why western nations are bankrupt.
Lousy figure… there is NO WAY that there are that many actual “Workers”… employees, perhaps…
That definitely includes private sector workers contracted through the feds.
The Biden EO for federal contractors in September stated the following:
Sec. 2. Mandatory Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. Each agency shall implement, to the extent consistent with applicable law, a program to require COVID-19 vaccination for all of its Federal employees, with exceptions only as required by law. The Task Force shall issue guidance within 7 days of the date of this order on agency implementation of this requirement for all agencies covered by this order.
Sec. 3. Definitions. For the purposes of this order:
(a) The term “agency” means an Executive agency as defined in 5 U.S.C. 105 (excluding the Government Accountability Office).
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/09/09/executive-order-on-requiring-coronavirus-disease-2019-vaccination-for-federal-employees/
Note the bolded portions. It was directed to federal Executive Branch government employees only. Many people do not grasp this. Of course, some Executive Branche employees are more equal than others (USPS, for example), a la “Animal Farm“. The whole thing is a farce.
Also the EO cited above was separate from the federal contractor EO (both issued the same day), which was already stayed a few weeks ago.
These confusing EOs and the OSHA “mandate” are purposely written that way. Read them carefully.
Correction to my first sentence: federal employees (the federal contractor was a separate EO).
Apologies–too late to edit since the 10-minute timer expired for editing.
Husband is federal and Military reserve. No religious exemption has been granted on any level that we are aware of. But we are sure he made it onto a special list they are keeping..so there is that.
I work for the VA. My boss told me that by law she could not deny my religious exemption.
I said a prayer for you and yours. May the Almighty protect you.
I am a feral contractor.
I received a religious exemption.
I was not even going to file for one and was going to ignore their mandates and timelines and let them fire me.
I was already mentally prepared for it.
Then my coworkers convinced me to apply for the exemption. I applied and they accepted.
Still, all the goodwill is gone and I doubt I will continue working for them much longer.
Serious question: How can the government deny a religious exemption?
For the sake of argument, suppose the courts approved Biden’s mandate. Biden’s Executive Order stated that those with “deeply held religious or moral convictions”.
The United States government is barred from making any laws “respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. First Amendment, in black and white. That has been abused to the point of allowing Satanist to offer “opening prayers” to government meetings.
All a person has to do is say I have a religious objection to that. The government cannot gauge your “religiousness”, nor question the sincerity of your religious beliefs.
So, how do they have any right to make any judgement whatsoever if I say “I have a religious objection” to taking the jab? IMO, they don’t.
Correct!!
They are keeping most of those with Religious exemptions in limbo. They have no deadline, but you can bet they gave deadlines to the people who were requesting exemptions.
Exactly. I went through the process and unfortunately at my employer, they suspended the process after the court proceedings moved to SCOTUS. While I’m glad about the outcome of the OSHA mandate, I’m actually affected by both the OSHA and federal contractor mandates. The BS part of this is that they suspended the vaccine mandate exemption reviews, but they still are enforcing a business travel and customer visit vaccine mandate, which impacts my job to some degree. I wish I would have been granted an exemption to provide some clarity to my situation. As it stands now, I’m still somewhat in limbo though some recent rulings have been promising. It also bothers me that one or two justices are the margin between tyranny and freedom. What if something happens to one of the remaining justices who is a strict Constitutionalist? Kavanaugh and Barrett have turned out to be disappointing, and I’m convinced Roberts is compromised.
Well, you are thinking as if the constitution still has meaning. The evil psychopaths stole an election and the courts did absolutely nothing. Look what they did to President Trump. They will do even more to us. Big Tech and the Demoncrats destroyed the first amendment. They shut down churches during the scamdemmic and left prostitutes, alcohol, and vape stores stay open. Look at what they are doing to anti-government protestors while BLM and Antifa kill and loot and burn and maim. They are coming for the 2nd amendment very soon.
The court ruled against the 100-person company mandate and the evil psychopaths didn’t care and told the companies to disregard the ruling. Yes, they actually said that. Let that sink in.
Has not stopped them yet…
It’s a two-part accommodation.
First, one must satisfy the “sincere religious belief.” The EEOC compliance manual states clearly that “religious” is not limited to formal religion and following stated position of said religious leaders. The manual states a “moral objection” is adequate. Thus, having a moral objection to being forced to take an injection is satisfactory. It’s illegal to ask for a religious leader to vouch for your beliefs. In fact, the manual further states (as backed by SCOTUS precedents) that a company or government organization lacks the expertise to accurately judge what is adequate conviction to the belief. As such, the manual states to rule in favor of the stated conviction being true unless prior behavior contradicts the now-stated belief. Example: you suddenly object to COVID vaccine for boosters but didn’t object to the original vaccine.
Second, and this is the key part, the organization and the employee must reach agreeable accommodations that do not create an undue burden on the organization.
For COVID, any employee that’s been allowed to work without the vaccine should be granted the same safety accommodations that have been in use for 18+ months. That assumes the decision is in good faith. Sometimes it’s not, and more employee-burdensome accommodations are required. For example, 2X weekly testing regardless of symptoms seems a bit ridiculous… but there is no provision in the EEOC compliance manual to force organizations to be that reasonable.
It all comes down to good faith versus ability to apply pressure where good faith is absent. That has been done via group lawsuits causing these stays. Another method I favored was for every individual to file a lawsuit in court. The cost is about $400 or less to file, and it doesn’t require a lawyer. And it costs the corporation $1000+/hour legal fees for each one. 5% of the workforce does that, and either the company goes bankrupt or they shift to good faith.
Robert Barnes (Barnes Law on locals.com) provided templates, guidance, initial words to edit to match your specific situation, and a comment section related to this. Many people successfully got their accommodation approved based on what he taught us (which is where I learned the above).
Using the EEOC compliance manual (Section 12) in a soft nudge was fun. I was able to shift my company to a better approach that they then applied to everyone. Seems their high dollar lawyers were only telling them how to fight, not how to work together. Fortunately, the company management was more interested in helping employees keep working while they maintained the gov’t contracts.
Eventually, someone is going to snap and take out a key figure. Maybe we should start a dead pool with Fauci the Farce at the top…
But the healthcare workers get Brandoned right up the Biden?
They should be next to have the mandate lifted.
I am endowed by my creator to certain unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Their mandates mean nothing to me and I’m glad the judicial system finally has the opportunity to explain that.
the fascists need to keep their hands off of the bedrock of this nation: FREEDOM!
Even Scotus now has the CDC on record, however that 1) a vaccination does not prevent a person from spread the contagion and 2) omicron is the dominant variant, at least at this moment and 3) No vaccine, including the so-called “booster” prevents Omicron infection and 4) we have enough data compiled at this time to show that the initial two boosters have a three to five time higher rate of “life-altering” (including death) side effects than any vaccine the FDA has ever approved. (*note* these vaccines are NOT approved to this date by the FDA).
While I completely agree with most of your post, I have to point out that the Pfizer vaccine has been FDA approved (not under EUA) since the end of August. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine
They haven’t produced a VACCINE to this date. Remember, some top people at the FDA resigned because of the sloppy process.
I beg to differ with you on that, the current vaccine in distribution is still under EUA.
From the FDA fact sheet dated September 2021: The FDA-approved COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) and the FDA-authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine under Emergency Use
Authorization (EUA) have the same formulation and can be used interchangeably
to provide the COVID-19 vaccination series.
COMIRNATY is currently not available in the US for distribution.
It will not be available until 2023 in the US. By then this charade should have a stake through it.
@Tuxmum, the only FDA-approved Covid vaccine that is not an EUA is the Comirnaty one, and it is NOT AVAILABLE in the United States.
https://stopwrongfulconvictions.wordpress.com/2021/11/04/there-are-no-approved-vaccines-in-the-united-states/
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/11/05/heres-the-real-reason-comirnaty-is-not-available/
Comirnaty has been approved. But the jabs currently being dispersed are still the Pfizer manufactured under the EUA. They are “legally distinct.”
No, the approval was for a similar formulation by Pfizer, one which is not available in the US. Despite the media crowing it has full approval, the Pfizer “vaccine” is still just under an EUA.
The lies continue as they create confusion. Marxist agenda
No, it hasnt. They approved a vaccine which has not been manufactured yet. This ghost “vaccine” is not being used in the States. They pulled a fast one on us. ALL the jabs are under the Emergency Use Authorization STILL, and therefore CANNOT be mandated.
But that vax is still not available. Anywhere that I can ken. MASSIVE FAIL.
Thst was sleight of hand. Comirnaty was approved. You cannot get it in the U.S. The only Pfizer “vaccine” available is the one authorized for emergency use only.
Actually, your assertion is false. The FDA approved Comirnaty, the BioNTech version of the Pfizer product, which is not available in the USA. The Pfizer version is still under EUA, which protects them from liability.
Had the Pfizer product been approved, this would have resulted in the revocation of all other EUA’s, since the EUA is only valid if there are no approved remedies for the particular purpose.
Do I have this right, 795,372 died from the vaccine, right?
93% of people who died after being vaccinated were killed by the vaccine – Link
US COVID-19 cases and deaths by state
How is the nation faring against COVID-19, both overall and at a state level? Get the answers here, with data on hotspots and infection rates. This map tracks the history of coronavirus cases in America, both recent and all-time.
Data Updated Jan 20
Cases 67,755,830
Deaths 855,239 times .93 equals 795,372
So 795,372 died from the vaccine, right?
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/
I’m beginning to understand exactly how the non Nazis felt about Hitler and the Nazi party while he was alive. I despise Joe Biden and I despise his disgusting political party and the disgusting Gobbelesque news media who props his sorry ass up.
I hope this “Nation Wide” injunction pisses off the Dem’s like it did us every time Trump did an EO & some assclown Liberal Judge/legislator invoked his nationwide decree against Trump.
You bank on it. The meltdowns are most likely very epic on the twit and fakebook. But since I don’t
dip my toe in those cesspools, I can only say it’s conjecture on my part.
“98% of Federal workers are vaccinated”… this is a LIE! At best, 55-60% are fully vaccinated….
Depends on one’s definition of “vaccinated” and “fully vaccinated.”
To go on a bit further, how can one be “vaccinated” with a gene-altering therapeutic that is not a “vaccine” at all? Enquiring minds want to know…
I’ve said that I will go to jail before I am forced an unwanted vaccine. I will also go to jail before getting some kind of passport or medically required ID, etc. we’ve let them take too much. It’s time to draw a line and then start taking our freedoms back.
Jail? Then you are just waiting for them to do whatever they want to you, like forcefully jab you….no, definitely stay free…..
My fellow patriots. We can get mad, be disappointed, fume and fuss, but it is useless. We must actively resist this tyranny with whatever means. Our forefathers had to pay the price for our freedom with blood and hard sacrifice.
The past four decades I have watched the globalist machine move forward with their plans. It is sickening to see what America has came to, and how immoral and perverted our government has become. Immoral government has lead to an ignorant and immoral culture. The ignorance of the average American is appalling on subjects besides pop-culture. Truly these perverts must have sold their souls to the devil.
I advise you, my friends, to prepare for hard times. First, I would pray repeatedly for guidance and direction from the Lord to be sure you do wisely and try to stay in His will. Especially you younger folks with families. Moving to a rural area is probably a wise move regardless of the obstacles. Finding a good Church home is a must. I have always been an optimist and remain a fighter, but things look bleak to this old hand.
Don’t accuse me of giving up. Not at all. I have not given up, but I am a realist. It’s just time to do whatever it takes to restore freedom for our kids and grands. I am optimistic about that.
God bless.
When the time comes, it will be up to all those of good faith to step forward and do what will have to be done. Young and old alike. I made my peace with God on this. I have told my beloved wife things may get nasty. I will do what I can.
I pray everyone else will do the same.
So, since the military are federal employees?….
Military vax mandate is different and covered by SECDEF order. While other mandates are put on hold, the DOD is full steam ahead on coercing troops to get the booster shot. For example must mask 24/7 on Navy ships underway unless > 75% of the crew is boosted.
I expect the FBI to raid that judge’s home shortly based on “evidence” found in the boxes of confetti taken from TX Rep Henry Cuellar.
We need to propose an experimental land deal where treepers can live in a state free of the inanity. We are extorted by our government to pay for itself to fight itself while constricting our rights like a boa constrictor.
I have dear friends who work in the fed gvmint who LOVE their work and what they do. And not just for the money by a long shot. Refusing the jab for them has been a long stuggle, which I am sure is not over. But told hold to you belief! Its called PRINCIPLES. Many succumbed to the jab, but many have not. So much heartbreak angst, and sorrow for not complying to the jabmeisters. Angry I am for all of my friends.
This song felt good to hear tonight.
The Traveling Wilbury’s
https://observationblogger.com/2021/06/03/congratulations-1988-the-travelling-wilburys/
Hate is the term I’m fighting with today. We will not make it to the midterms- if we even have voting- which I doubt.
“counseling”
aka
“re-education”
14th AmendmentSection 1.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Vaccine mandates by fiat of the King are flatly unconstitutional.
WHAT about the military?
WHY is my comment about Clarence Thomas being the GOLD standard being withheld?
Is it that I was honest about the comportment of Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy at the Thomas hearings?