Okla. attorney general sues Biden administration over vaccine mandates

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TULSA, Okla. — The State of Oklahoma filed a suit against the Biden administration’s mandatory vaccination request for national contractors.

“Biden’s vaccine mandates are a wide maltreatment of power. He does not person the authorization to marque healthcare decisions for Oklahomans,” Attorney General John O’Connor said. He claims the mandate is “unconstitutional” and volition origin unvaccinated Oklahoman employees to suffer their jobs.

Biden claims his program volition guarantee the U.S. is utilizing each instrumentality to combat the coronavirus and prevention lives, portion besides keeping schools unfastened and safe, and protecting the system from lockdowns and further damage.

After Biden's announcement Gov. Kevin Stitt vowed to writer implicit the mandate.

Stitt threatens to writer implicit Biden vaccine mandate

O’Connor and 20 different Attorneys General wrote President Biden past week to situation the mandatory vaccination request for national contractors. The Oklahoma Attorney General’s bureau acquired extracurricular counsel to assistance with the lawsuit.

“We admit the enactment from our State’s Senate and the House,” Attorney General O’Connor said. “With their support, we tin basal up for the rights of Oklahomans and support the regularisation of instrumentality against national overreach.”

The AG bureau is finalizing different suit to situation the OSHA rules released Thursday.

View a transcript of the national declaration suit filing here.

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