TFG-appointed judges are pushing a huge right-wing lie in order to block vaccine mandates

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In July, President Joe Biden issued a series of rules requiring that federal workers, and workers at companies that receive federal contracts, must be vaccinated. That included health care workers who work for hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid payments. However, earlier this month, a three-judge panel in Texas blocked the implementation of the mandate for many large companies. Now, as The Washington Post reports, a federal district judge in Missouri has acted to block even the mandate for health care workers. That includes workers dealing face-to-(hopefully-masked-)face with COVID-19 patients in emergency rooms and workers caring for those most vulnerable to bad outcomes in nursing homes.

What both rulings have in common is simple enough: Trump-appointed judges.

Unsurprisingly, the ruling from District Judge Matthew Schelp is filled with the kind of political language that might be expected from a Trump appointee, with statements including claims that implementing the rule would create a “...politically and economically vast, federalism-altering, and boundary-pushing mandate...” The ruling also flatly accepts unsupported claims by a group of Republican state attorneys, headed by radical right Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt, that the mandate would cause a collapse of the health care system. According to Judge Schelp, it’s the mandate that’s the threat that “significantly understates the burden that its mandate would impose on the ability of health care facilities to provide proper care, and thus, save lives.”

In fact, Judge Schelp ultimately echoes right-wing talking points by claiming that vaccine mandates mean that people will just walk off the job. “The loss of staffing in many instances will result in no care at all,” writes Schelp, “as some facilities will be forced to close altogether.” This isn’t just untrue; it’s a massive lie.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/30/2066780/-Trump-appointed-judges-are-killing-Americans-by-blocking-vaccine-mandates-and-that-s-just-the-start

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...nt

[JHB]

2. Remember, there are very few actual "Trump judges". Others picked who he nominated

These are Federalist Society judges, groomed for partisanship.

The entire reason it was founded was to provide Republican presidents with a pool of Conservatively Correct jurists. And you know who gravitates toward the positions who do the selection of that pool: the most obsessive and zealous. They oust any "backsliders."

Other Republicans might have had their own people give input, but TFG left all that to the FS and the Heritage Foundation.