Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by martyb on Thursday December 02 2021, @03:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the liberty-or-death dept.

Judge blocks Biden vaccine rule, citing “liberty interests of the unvaccinated”

A federal judge yesterday blocked a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, granting a request for preliminary injunction filed by Republican attorneys general from 14 states.

US District Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the government lacks authority to implement the rule that "requires the staff of twenty-one types of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers to receive one vaccine by December 6, 2021, and to receive the second vaccine by January 4, 2022." Providers that don't comply face penalties, including "termination of the Medicare/Medicaid Provider Agreement."

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate regulates over 10.3 million health care workers in the US, of which 2.4 million are unvaccinated. The Biden vaccine rule is being challenged by the attorneys general from Louisiana, Montana, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. The Republican AGs' lawsuit was filed against CMS and the US Department of Health and Human Services.

The preliminary injunction they won applies nationwide except for 10 states that "are already under a preliminary injunction order dated November 29, 2021, issued by the Eastern District of Missouri," a court order said. Those states are Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

What states did not participate in this lawsuit and were not covered by the earlier preliminary injunction — i.e. got swept into this decision?

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @11:53AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @11:53AM (#1201439)

    Smart has nothing to do with voter ID. Restrictive locations and hours that favor white collar workers with disposable income, personal vehicles to travel to the few open spots, and plenty of flex time or work from home are next to impossible to meet for someone working two blue collar jobs to make ends meet.

    Fuck your noise. You're just spouting the propaganda to make a LITER disenfranchisement scheme sound reasonable on the face of it--to people with the privilege to be unaware of what working class life is really like.

    When you're only open Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 2 PM, and closed for an hour lunch, qnd only in the wealthy white suburbs, you cannot in good conscience call that being accessible to all citizens. Take your racist trash somewhere else. Your lies are stale and tired.

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   +5  
       Insightful=3, Informative=1, Underrated=1, Total=5
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   5  
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @11:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @11:55AM (#1201440)

    *LITERAL disenfranchisement scheme.

    Fuck autocorrect.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @12:30PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @12:30PM (#1201446)

    Keep repeating the talking points. In effect, "It's racissss because we say so!" I would ask you for numbers, outlining how many black people were denied the vote because of any specific law. But, I'm sure that CNN has a list of fake numbers they've published.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @12:44PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @12:44PM (#1201450)

      Talking points?

      How about you REPLY TO MY COMMENT instead of deflecting entirely.

      I'm sure there's someone to fit your stereotype, but it's not me. I don't need someone else's talking points (and I have zero idea what CNN or any other cable network is saying). I have a brain of my own, and I've been making individually reasoned arguments of my own for decades. If you can't be bothered to engage with the comment, go to Facebook or whatever other echo chamber you frequent.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @12:54PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @12:54PM (#1201453)

        There's nothing to reply to. All you have is a bare-ass accusation that Republicans don't want black people to vote.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @12:57PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @12:57PM (#1201455)

          You just made up that, because not a word of what you said is in my post.

          Are you feeling okay? Like, you're actually imagining things that have demonstrably not happened.

          I'm worried about you.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @05:32PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 02 2021, @05:32PM (#1201556)

            APK, I mean runaway1956, has had mental health issues for yeaaaars.