Chris Christie says he thinks Biden's employer vaccine mandates are on 'shaky ground,' a day after

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

taking heat for criticizing Trump on 9/11

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie supports getting the COVID-19 vaccine, but he thinks President Joe Biden's new mandate for private employers is "on shaky ground" legally.

"Working for the government and ordering government workers to have a mandate, there is one thing," Christie said Sunday on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

"Extending that to two-thirds of all the jobs and make it either get vaccinated or not, it's also contradictory logically," Christie said.

The White House last week rolled out a new series of rules in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus, as cases again surgeand the vaccination rate in the country far too low to support herd immunity. Biden's new rules require private employers with more than 100 employees to mandate vaccines or weekly testing. Federal employees and healthcare workers are also required to be vaccinated, per Biden's new plan. The administration will also enforce fines of up to $14,000 per violation for employers that ignore these mandates.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chris-christie-says-thinks-bidens-185823315.html

Who asked you?

[PortTack]

1. Vaccines have been mandated or required in the country for centuries!

Jacobson vs Massachusetts 1905 is me example

[Enter stage left]

2. Hey Chris...

you might be aware of the phrase that includes; flying leaps, and rolling donuts...

Take it to heart!

[BlueIdaho]

3. I'll tell you who's on shaky ground...

No wait - I promised myself no more fat jokes about Chris Christie…

[EYESORE 9001]

4. Too late

You provided the raw materials and I wrote one in my head.

[oasis]

5. Just plop your "hasbeen" ass down in yer beach lounge and stfu.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. With Republicans, it always about jobs and business interests.

Heaven help us if one job is lost or hours cut to save 1,000 lives......

For Republicans.....

* Forcing kids back to the classrooms is all about making more adults available for the job market.
* Denying mask and vaccination mandates (or making them illegal) is all about not influencing corporate bottom lines, and again forcing everyone back to work without concern for health.

Republicans are owned by corporate and high-wealth interests, period. Everything else is just fluff for the unwashed masses with the exception of racism and in that regard, they're rotten to the core. It's been that way for as long as I can remember since the late 50s.


KY rant done...........

[abqtommy]

7. snark alert on: Yeah, when I need someone to give me legal advice the first

person I think of is Chris Christie. alert off What a loser he is.

[Bev54]

9. Chris Christie sounds like he is as good a lawyer as he was a governor

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Chris Christie is wrong (he is a bad lawyer)

These mandates will work

Link to tweet

In the aftermath of President Joe Biden's latest announcement that companies with over 100 employees must mandate vaccines or test all employees once a week, legal experts say the Department of Labor rule will be litigious and messy, but it just might work.

"There's never been anything so extensive in American history that it requires vaccines across such a wide swath of Americans," said Lawrence Gostin, a law professor at Georgetown University and director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.

"But I think he's on rock-solid legal ground," Gostin said.

Already, Republican governors have outlined plans to overturn the rule -- which hasn't even been implemented by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration -- on behalf of their constituents who believe it infringes on their individual rights.

But experts who have reviewed the policy say Biden is acting within his power as president and backed by previous court decisions that have been pro-vaccine.

"I would argue that the basis for findings of grave danger and necessity, which is what statute requires, are probably stronger now for this use than they have been in OSHA's 50-plus year history," said Lindsay Wiley, a law professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and director of the school's Health Law and Policy Program.