Opinion | Biden’s Vaccine Mandate, Enforced By OSHA, is a Big Mistake – The New York Times

As a practical matter, it s undeniable that the federal mandate will engender a titanic backlash and create a spate of lawsuits. Vaccine holdouts have already taken legal action against employers requiring vaccination: Todd Zywicki, a law professor at George Mason University in Virginia who had recovered from Covid and has antibodies, recently fought his institution s mandate and prevailed. And Republican governors are certain to battle Mr. Biden over this policy. Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, a Republican, tweeted at the president, See you in court.

It s true that courts have upheld vaccine mandates in certain circumstances: In a 1922 case, the Supreme Court famously ruled that a city ordinance could deny admission to students who failed to get the smallpox vaccine. But the assertion that a public official can completely sidestep the legislative process and enact a much farther-reaching vaccine mandate via administrative action should elicit skepticism from even those who vigorously support vaccination.

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Perhaps Biden is thinking, or someone is thinking for him, that this is the ultimate virtue signal, to try to cram this down 100 million throats. But like most virtue signals these days, it will only inflame the opposition. Perhaps that’s the point.