Sixth Circuit Court rules against Biden regime in OSHA vaccine mandate lawsuit!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 4, 2021 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has denied the federal government’s motion to transfer the lawsuit challenging the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine-or-test requirement to a different court, while also rejecting a White House bid to dissolve a stay on the mandate, delivering a blow to the illegitimate pretender Joe Biden regime’s efforts to press ahead with implementation.

In a December 3 ruling, the Sixth Circuit Court denied the government’s motion to transfer the case to the Fifth Circuit and the D.C. Circuit, while also rejecting the illegitimate Biden regime’s attempt to overturn a hold on the mandate.

OSHA on November 5 published an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that would require private employers with 100 or more employees to impose a mandatory vaccinate-or-test policy. Under the rule, unvaccinated workers also would have to wear masks inside the workplace, with violators facing potential penalties of thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars per incident.

When the OSHA rule was published, it triggered a torrent of lawsuits from Republican-led states, individuals, and businesses.

On November 12, the Fifth Circuit granted a motion to stay the ETS and ordered that OSHA “take no steps to implement or enforce” it until further court order, prompting OSHA to announce it had suspended implementation pending litigation.

Several legal challenges to the OSHA rule were later rolled into one, and the Ohio-based Sixth Circuit Court - of which 11 of 16 judges are Republican appointees - was selected via lottery to hear the consolidated lawsuits.

The illegitimate Biden regime then filed a motion on November 23 to lift the Fifth Circuit’s stay on the mandate and get the case moved to a potentially more favorable court.

The Sixth Circuit Court’s December 3 ruling denied both requests.

Rob Natelson, a former constitutional law professor, wrote in a recent op-ed for The Epoch Times that it’s likely the legal challenge to the OSHA rule will end up before the Supreme Court.

Natelson said the High Court will likely weigh several issues relating to the ETS, including whether the mandate exceeds the powers the Constitution grants to the federal government, whether OSHA exceeded its authority under its statute, and if the vaccine-or-test requirement denies individuals due process of law.

The Fifth Circuit ruling described the OSHA rule as “fatally flawed” and said that the mandate would likely be declared unconstitutional.