A federal judge has agreed with the same arguments Harriet Hageman has been making in court that President Joe Biden does not have the authority to order federal employees to take the coronavirus vaccine. The judge has temporarily blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal employees, saying the president did not have the authority to order the workers to take the shot “with the stroke of a pen and without input from Congress.” The ruling is a preliminary injunction against the mandate while litigation continues.
This follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week that Biden exceeded his authority when he ordered large private-sector employers to require their workers to be vaccinated.
Hageman, Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Wyoming, is serving as co-counsel in a similar case also filed in the same court, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Under the Biden vaccine mandate, federal employees – regardless of natural immunity status – were required to be vaccinated and face disciplinary action, including the possible loss of employment, if they failed to comply. The order is a violation of the constitutional rights to bodily integrity and to decline medical treatment. The mandate is also a violation of the federal Emergency Use Authorization law, which specifies that patients have a right to informed consent and may decline receiving a drug approved under the statute.
Hageman today issued the following statement:
“President Biden’s been smacked down again, and this is an encouraging ruling because the mandate, like his other ones, is a clear violation of the federal employees’ constitutional and statutory rights and personal autonomy. The vaccine mandate is unconstitutional, unlawful, and would have no impact on public health because the plaintiffs in my case have already acquired natural immunity. Biden is having to be taught lesson after lesson that he is not a dictator and must abide by our laws and by our Constitution.”
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