The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration announced it is ending the COVID-19 vaccination and testing rules that were struck down by the Supreme Court but vowed to continue efforts to make the rules permanent in the future.
"The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is withdrawing the vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard issued on Nov. 5, 2021, to protect unvaccinated employees of large employers with 100 or more employees from workplace exposure to coronavirus," the agency said in a statement Tuesday, noting that the withdrawal will go into effect Wednesday.
But the agency said it wasn't giving up on the mandate completely, vowing to work at making it a permanent rule.
"Although OSHA is withdrawing the vaccination and testing ETS as an enforceable emergency temporary standard, the agency is not withdrawing the ETS as a proposed rule," the statement said. "The agency is prioritizing its resources to focus on finalizing a permanent COVID-19 Healthcare Standard."
OSHA's move to continue the effort to make the mandate a permanent rule drew the ire of First Liberty Institute, which represented three religious ministries to challenge the mandate......
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Unfortunately they don't tell us who those ministries are. This is wonderful news, but only because Democommies have beecome so lawless and tyrannical that one's surprised when they obey the Supremes! Doubly so because their ruling was an injunction, which I think (?) ordinarily means in effect "stop that till we decide whether it's legal".
"The Supreme Court made it clear that the President Biden administration’s attempt to federalize the nation’s workforce is blatantly unconstitutional," the heroes opine, with rare perspicuity for conservs -- a case of everybody calling something by a wrong name and somebody finally getting it right. Most of the time conservs are the most dialectically FEEBLE-MINDED crowd in the western world! NN
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