The Fifth Circuit is right: The vaccine mandate is unconstitutional and wrong

Utah’s Fox 13 reports, “The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with Utah and other states seeking to block the Biden administration's efforts to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine or regular testing on businesses with more than 100 employees.

The Fifth Circuit is right. This vaccine mandate is unconstitutional and wrong. @POTUS’s vaccine mandate has to go.https://t.co/g5cWQdTGbB

— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) November 13, 2021

In a ruling handed down Friday night, the Louisiana-based Court granted a stay on any enforcement of the rule pending further litigation. It also ordered the Occupational Safety and Health Administration take no steps to enforce the mandate until further court order. Utah, Texas, South Carolina and Mississippi filed a petition challenging the mandate.

‘It is clear that a denial of the petitioners’ proposed stay would do them irreparable harm. For one, the Mandate threatens to substantially burden the liberty interests of reluctant individual recipients put to a choice between their job(s) and their jab(s),’ Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote.”

Read the entire story.