Okla. attorney general challenges OSHA's authority to issue vaccine mandate

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Attorney General John O’Connor joins different attorneys wide by filing a petition earlier the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit challenging the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for private-sector employees.

The petition asks the tribunal to reappraisal the exigency impermanent modular issued by the Biden Administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) connected Thursday, which requires the vaccination of tens of millions of citizens by Jan. 4.

“In Oklahoma, President Biden volition not find however an idiosyncratic makes healthcare decisions for themselves and their families,” General O’Connor said. “The Biden Administration continuously uses national overreach to portion distant Americans’ law rights and I volition proceed to support the regularisation of instrumentality against this absurd maltreatment of power.”

In their petition, O'Connor and six different authorities attorneys wide situation the legality of the Biden Administration’s mandate and inquire the Sixth Circuit to reappraisal the validity of it, arguing that OSHA lacks statutory and law authorization to contented specified standard.

The conjugation is besides arguing that the powerfulness to contented exigency impermanent standards was delegated to OSHA by Congress. However, they are saying their authorization does not widen to risks that are arsenic prevalent astatine enactment and successful nine astatine large.

They notation however OSHA refused to contented a nationwide exigency impermanent modular for COVID-19 due to the fact that "COVID-19 is simply a community-wide hazard that is not unsocial to the workplace" arsenic 1 of their examples.

The conjugation remarks that the vaccine mandate prohibits states from enacting and enforcing their ain policies successful effect to the COVID-19 pandemic. OSHA’s mandate takes distant that powerfulness from the states and prevents policymakers from enacting policies that are beneficial to their respective states.

The attorneys wide is asking the tribunal to halt President Biden’s vaccine mandate until the tribunal rules connected the legitimacy of the rule.

“We are thankful for the enactment of the legislature to bring this suit connected behalf of the State and the governor,” General O’Connor said. “With their support, we tin support hardworking Oklahomans from this reckless and unconstitutional national overreach.”

Attorney General O’Connor joined the suit alongside attorneys wide from Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

View a transcript of the filing here.

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