Source: China News Network
According to the US Chinese Network, ten Republican state attorneys general jointly launched a lawsuit on the 29th to challenge the Biden administration's mandatory vaccine order against federal contractors, believing that the order was "unconstitutional, illegal and unwise".
On December 21, 2020 local time, Biden publicly vaccinated the new crown vaccine at a hospital in Delaware, hoping to prove the safety of the vaccine to the public. Biden thanked those involved in vaccine development and distribution, as well as frontline health care workers, for the injection.
The lawsuit, filed by attorneys generals from Missouri, Nebraska, Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, said the bid issued by the Biden administration was a "power grab."
The lawsuit alleges that the claim was an unlawful usurpation of police power in various states, a violation of the Tenth Amendment, and that there were issues such as "inconsistencies" with the procurement law.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt said in a statement that if the federal government tries to exercise its will unconstitutionally and forces federal contractors to force vaccinations, the workforce could be laid off, further exacerbating the supply chain and labor crisis. "The federal government should not mandate vaccinations, which is why we are filing a lawsuit today — to stop this illegal, unconstitutional action," he said. ”
"The impact of the federal contractors' vaccine order is enormous." Nebraska Attorney General Douglas Peterson said in a statement, "It will affect countless employees, exacerbate existing labor shortages, and create economic instability." On top of that, if they just make the individual choice not to vaccinate, as long as they happen to work for a federal contractor, then these individual employees are unemployed. ”
The lawsuit comes after legal challenges to the federal contractor's vaccine orders were filed in several other states. Lawsuits have been filed in Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Texas and Florida.
In response to legal challenges from Missouri and Florida, a White House official has said President Biden "has the authority to protect federal labor and improve the efficiency of federal contracts in this way" and argued that the vaccine order does not violate federal procurement laws.