District of Columbia | November 10, 2021
Over 2 dozen Navy SEALs sue Biden admin. over COVID-19 vaccine mandate
District of Columbia | November 10, 2021
A group of about 35 U.S. Navy personnel, including 26 Navy SEALs, have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Defense over the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The lawsuit filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas names President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III, the U.S. Defense Department, and Secretary of the Navy Carlos del Toro as defendants.
In addition to the 26 Navy SEALs, plaintiffs also include five U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewmen, three U.S. Navy Divers and one U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician.
The complaint argues that the Navy fails to provide an adequate exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for those with sincerely held religious objections… (Excerpts from the Christian Post)
District of Columbia | November 10, 2021
Biden admin. to rescind Trump-era religious exemptions for federal contractors
District of Columbia | November 10, 2021
The Biden administration has proposed narrowing the religious exemptions to federal discrimination law given to entities that contract with the federal government, which currently allows them to uphold religious convictions in certain hiring decisions.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, a U.S. Department of Labor division, has proposed rescinding a federal contractor rule adopted under President Donald Trump in 2020.
In the proposed rule change, published in the Federal Register Tuesday, the OFCCP argued that the Trump administration rule was too broad compared to previous administrations and ran afoul of discrimination measures governing federal contractors…. (Excerpts from the Christian Post)
District of Columbia | November 7, 2021
BREAKING: Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Businesses
District of Columbia | November 7, 2021
An appeals court has issued a stay and temporarily halted Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees.
The ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit came after multiple states’ attorney generals filed lawsuits against the administration.
The court said that they found “grave statutory and constitutional” issues with the mandate.
Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda told Reuters that the Labor Department was “confident in its legal authority” to issue the rule, which will be enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
“The Occupational Safety and Health Act explicitly gives OSHA the authority to act quickly in an emergency where the agency finds that workers are subjected to a grave danger and a new standard is necessary to protect them,” she said. “We are fully prepared to defend this standard in court.”… (Excerpts from the Gateway Pundit)
District of Columbia | November 6, 2021
PETA calls for Dr. Fauci to resign: ‘Our position is clear’
District of Columbia | November 6, 2021
The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals said that the National Institutes of Health leadership should resign, including Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“Our position is clear. ALL those in leadership at NIH, including Fauci, should resign,” PETA tweeted on Friday afternoon.
The tweet comes after a White Coat Waste report claimed that more than $400,000 in taxpayer funding was spent on experiments that involved beagles being given an experimental drug, then infested with disease-carrying flies. Fox News has not independently verified whether these experiments took place. NIH provided a statement to Fox News about the report in October. That statement did not deny these types of experiments took place or that NIH funded them…. (Excerpts from Fox News)
District of Columbia | November 5, 2021
Sen. Ron Johnson: Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Meets ‘Definition of Insanity’
District of Columbia | November 5, 2021
The Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers, set to go into effect Friday, poses risks to some Americans, further burdens the economy, and comes close to fitting the “definition of insanity,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., says.
“Have all these policy responses worked? The shutdowns? The mandates?” Johnson asked rhetorically during remarks Thursday at The Heritage Foundation. The Wisconsin Republican said that after 750,000 deaths in the United States related to COVID-19, trillions of dollars in additional debt, psychological harm to young children from lengthy school closures, and the loss of freedom, government’s response to the disease “has been a miserable failure.” “And at some point in time I think we have to understand what Albert Einstein was reported to have said. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” Johnson said…. (Excerpts from the Daily Signal)
District of Columbia | November 4, 2021
OSHA Vaccine Mandate Released, 84 Million Workers Face Jan. 4 Deadline
District of Columbia | November 4, 2021
The Biden administration has released the new rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requiring 84 million private sector workers to get vaccinated for COVID-19 by Jan. 4, 2022.
The administration has also announced its rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Assistance (CMS) requiring 17 million health care workers participating in federal health programs to be vaccinated.
The White House is also pushing back the deadline for workers in those sectors as well as federal contractors to get fully vaccinated to Jan. 4, 2022, according to a senior administration official.
The OSHA rule requires employers with 100 or more employees to put vaccine requirements in place for all staff or face fines of up to $14,000 per violation. The agency is allowed to put into place an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) when it determines workers are at “grave risk.”.. (Excerps from the Epoch Times)