GOP-majority court chosen to consider Biden vaccine mandate

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Challenges to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers will be consolidated in the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel dominated by judges appointed by Republicans.

The Cincinnati-based court was selected Tuesday in a random drawing using ping-pong balls, a process employed when challenges to certain federal agency actions are filed in multiple courts.

The selection could be good news for those challenging the administration’s vaccine requirement, which includes officials in 27 Republican-led states, employers and several conservative and business organizations. They argue the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration does not have the authority to impose the mandate.

The challenges, along with some from unions that said the vaccine mandate didn’t go far enough, were made this month in 12 circuit courts. Under an arcane system, it was up to the clerk of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict litigation to select a ping-pong ball from a bin to choose where the cases would be heard.

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By GEOFF MULVIHILL
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-us-supreme-court-business-health-62a918becbcd80a77fbc12ca56dd14ad

[ananda]

1. So the possibility of a death panel is decided by ping pong balls?

And the death panel won.

!@#$%

[OneCrazyDiamond]

3. If by death panels you are referring to the term from 2009

by which the GQP tried to frighten people to stop the passage of PPACA, it means something else:

"Death panel" was named the most outrageous term of 2009 by the American Dialect Society. The definition was given as "A supposed committee of doctors and/or bureaucrats who would decide which patients were allowed to receive treatment, ostensibly leaving the rest to die".

We want OSHA rules to force them to receive the recommended treatment, or be fired (ideally crying about fairness).

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Maybe we should select our president the same way.

I can already hear TFG yelling that the balls were weighted against him

[Initech]

4. What could go wrong there?