Attorney General Steve Marshall is making good on the threat to sue the Biden Administration of the vaccine mandate announced this week. Marshall also filed a lawsuit last Friday challenging the federal-contractor vaccination mandate.
Marshall posted yesterday on Twitter, “See you in court, @JoeBiden.”
Marshall filed a legal challenge to block President Biden’s private-employer vaccine mandate. The petition for review was filed in the Eleventh Circuit immediately after the rule was formally published Friday morning.
The proposed emergency rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires private companies with 100 or more employees to ensure that their workers are either fully vaccinated by January 4, 2022, or workers will have to submit to weekly testing and wear masks.
Marshall stated, “Today, I’ve challenged the Biden Administration’s latest attempt to wreck our nation’s economy while satiating the left’s infatuation with government-mandated immunization. Not only is this mandate based on a faulty public health premise—that workplace immunization will stop the spread of COVID—but it is based on an utterly flawed legal premise as well. When you consider the number of employees impacted by both the federal-contractor and private-employer mandate, Biden has effectively issued a nationwide vaccine mandate. As I have said before, this effort is illegitimate and legally unserious. Based on recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent, I am confident the Eleventh Circuit will agree.”
Marshall argued that the mandate will only worsen the labor crisis.
Marshall commented, “Our nation is in the midst of a labor crisis. We can see and feel that here in Alabama. Instead of promoting policies that would encourage individuals to re-enter the work force, this Administration has done nothing but deter them. Vaccine mandates don’t guarantee protection from COVID—they guarantee a labor shortage.”
Marshall joined colleagues from Florida and Georgia to challenge the OSHA rule, along with one Alabama-based private plaintiff, Scotch Plywood Company, Inc.
In late October, Marshall, along with Republican state legislative leaders and the state Personnel Office, issued an advisory regarding the COVID-19 vaccine mandate urging federal contractors in the state to not investigate employees seeing a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine.
