I've only posted the dissent.
Keep in mind the justices take EVERY precaution to avoid covid! Yet, screw the workers... these people make me sick!
Supreme Court blocks Biden’s workplace vaccine rules, allows requirement for health-care workers
By Robert Barnes
Yesterday at 7:23 p.m. EST
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The court’s three liberals — Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — issued a joint dissent withering in its criticism of the majority and defensive of OSHA’s expertise and authority.
“Over the past two years, COVID-19 has affected — indeed, transformed — virtually every workforce and workplace in the Nation,” they wrote, adding that employers and workers alike had responded to the special risks of transmission.
It is “perverse” to read federal law as “constraining OSHA from addressing one of the gravest workplace hazards in the agency’s history,” the dissent says.
The justices asked who should decide the protection American workers should receive: “An agency with expertise in workplace health and safety, acting as Congress and the President authorized? Or a court, lacking any knowledge of how to safeguard workplaces, and insulated from responsibility for any damage it causes?”
The justices own workplace has been closed to the public for nearly two years because of the pandemic. All of them are vaccinated and have received booster shots, and all except Gorsuch have been wearing masks on the bench because of the particularly contagious omicron variant responsible for the most recent spike in cases and hospitalizations.
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-biden-vaccine-rules/2022/01/13/2e6e4b9e-749e-11ec-bc13-18891499c514_story.html
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