COVID-19
AZ Attorney General Leads Multi State Lawsuit Against Biden for Healthcare Workers ‘Job or Jab’ Mandate
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office announced a multi-state coalition in filing a lawsuit to stop the Biden administration’s overreaching “job or jab” COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sent out a press release explaining the coalition filed the lawsuit and a request for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. In the release, Brnovich was quoted:
“The theme of this Veteran’s Day Weekend also applies to our health care workers, who have been on the frontlines since the start of this pandemic. We don’t turn our backs on our heroes…It’s our turn to protect their individual liberties and ensure that all Americans can continue to make their own choices regarding COVID-19 vaccines.”
BREAKING: Our office just co-led a multistate coalition in filing a lawsuit to stop the Biden administration’s overreaching “job or jab” COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers.
Arizona continues to take action to protect individual liberties. https://t.co/Lv0JYLvePo
— Mark Brnovich (@GeneralBrnovich) November 16, 2021
The coalition’s lawsuit alleges that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) COVID-19 vaccine mandate on facilities that receive federal funding for treating patients exceeds the agency’s statutory authority and violates the Social Security Act’s prohibition on regulations that control the hiring and firing of health care workers. It also violates multiple federal laws, clauses, and doctrines and the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
More gravely, the Biden administration’s COVID-19 mandate threatens the well-being of people who rely on services provided by the federal health care programs and the livelihoods of those who provide that care.
“The Vaccine Mandate causes grave danger to the vulnerable persons whom Medicare and Medicaid were designed to protect — the poor, children, sick, and the elderly — by forcing the termination of millions of essential “healthcare heroes,” the complaint reads.
According to CMS, the COVID-19 vaccine mandate targets about a quarter of the nation’s health care workers who have chosen not to get vaccinated. The Biden administration’s core “objective is to coerce the unvaccinated workforce into submission or cause them to lose their livelihoods.” Without the injunction, sought by General Brnovich, the end result will be health care workers losing their jobs and America’s most vulnerable populations losing access to necessary medical care.
After a two-year investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic, a congressional panel released a 520-page reporton Monday, endorsing the theory that the virus most likely originated from a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China. The pandemic has claimed 1.1 million American lives and left lasting global impacts.
The investigation, led by the Republican-controlled House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, examined the origins of the virus, the response at federal and state levels, and vaccine development efforts.
The Select Subcommittee report stated “COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.” In support of the “lab leak” theory, the report said the subcommittee learned that the virus had a biological characteristic that is not found in nature and that data showed all COVID-19 cases stemming from a single introduction to humans.
“By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced,” the report says.
“This work will help the United States and the world prepare for, protect against, and hopefully prevent future pandemics,” said Brad Wenstrup, the panel’s chairman, in a letter accompanying the report.
Fox News notes the report mentions China’s foremost SARS research lab is in Wuhan, “which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels,” and that researchers at the lab “were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.”
Initial rumors swirled at the beginning of the pandemic that China’s wet markets, which are known for selling meat, fish, produce and exotic animals in unsanitary conditions, were the origin of the virus.
that the committee based its conclusions on over one million pages of documents, 30 interviews, and 25 meetings. Among its findings, the report concluded that U.S. funding, funneled through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supported controversial gain-of-function research at WIV.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as a key public health advisor during the pandemic, has been a central figure in this debate. During closed-door interviews with the committee, Fauci denied claims that he concealed information about the virus’s origins, arguing that the bat viruses studied in Wuhan could not have been transformed into SARS-CoV-2.
The report, however, concluded that COVID-19 “likely emerged because of a laboratory or research-related accident.”
Additionally, the committee criticized lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing measures, asserting they caused more harm than good. However, it praised Operation Warp Speed for its success in accelerating vaccine development while noting the lasting consequences of school closures on children.
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