Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a lawsuit to block the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors.The Biden administration announced Thursday that its vaccine rules applying to private businesses with 100 or more employees, certain health care workers and federal contractors will take effect Jan. 4.The rules stipulate that employees that fall into those groups will need to have received the necessary shots to be fully vaccinated, either two doses of Pfizer or Moderna's vaccine or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, by Jan. 4. The suit, filed on behalf of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, Yost, together with Geauga County Prosecutor Jim Flaiz and Sheriff Scott A. Hildenbrand, Seneca County Sheriff Fredrick W. Stevens and the attorneys general of Kentucky and Tennessee, challenges the Biden administration’s authority to mandate COVID-19 vaccines.According to the suit, the mandate would cause sheriff's offices to lose deputies and lead to "the release of dangerous ICE detainees being held in county jails across Ohio." “If our jails see no option but refusing federal ICE detainees, what happens to those detainees, who are prioritized for removal for committing heinous crimes in our communities and posing national security threats? None of us wants to find out,” Yost said in a statement. “That’s just one important reason why I’m suing to end this illegal mandate.”Yost said the workforce loss poses a significant threat to state economies, as it could worsen the ongoing gaps in the supply chain. The lawsuit also argues the vaccine mandate is unconstitutional, saying police power to enforce mandates falls within a state’s authority, not the federal government’s authority. It also states Congress did not give the president authority to issue such a broad mandate. “I’ve said it many times: The Biden administration may not do whatever it wants however it wants,” he added. “The Constitution lays out critical rules by which the executive branch must operate. Congress and the states have their own powers, which the administration can’t just take over because it wants to.”
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a lawsuit to block the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors.
The Biden administration announced Thursday that its vaccine rules applying to private businesses with 100 or more employees, certain health care workers and federal contractors will take effect Jan. 4.
The rules stipulate that employees that fall into those groups will need to have received the necessary shots to be fully vaccinated, either two doses of Pfizer or Moderna's vaccine or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, by Jan. 4.
The suit, filed on behalf of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, Yost, together with Geauga County Prosecutor Jim Flaiz and Sheriff Scott A. Hildenbrand, Seneca County Sheriff Fredrick W. Stevens and the attorneys general of Kentucky and Tennessee, challenges the Biden administration’s authority to mandate COVID-19 vaccines.
According to the suit, the mandate would cause sheriff's offices to lose deputies and lead to "the release of dangerous ICE detainees being held in county jails across Ohio."
“If our jails see no option but refusing federal ICE detainees, what happens to those detainees, who are prioritized for removal for committing heinous crimes in our communities and posing national security threats? None of us wants to find out,” Yost said in a statement. “That’s just one important reason why I’m suing to end this illegal mandate.”
Yost said the workforce loss poses a significant threat to state economies, as it could worsen the ongoing gaps in the supply chain.
The lawsuit also argues the vaccine mandate is unconstitutional, saying police power to enforce mandates falls within a state’s authority, not the federal government’s authority. It also states Congress did not give the president authority to issue such a broad mandate.
“I’ve said it many times: The Biden administration may not do whatever it wants however it wants,” he added. “The Constitution lays out critical rules by which the executive branch must operate. Congress and the states have their own powers, which the administration can’t just take over because it wants to.”
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