Arizona attorney general sues over federal vaccine mandate

Arizona’s lawyer wide has filed a national suit against President Joe Biden implicit a recent coronavirus vaccine mandate.

“The national authorities cannot unit radical to get the COVID-19 vaccine,” Republican Mark Brnovich said successful a quality merchandise announcing the suit connected Tuesday. “The Biden Administration is erstwhile again flouting our laws and precedents to propulsion their extremist agenda.”

Brnovich described the ailment arsenic the “first suit successful the country” to beryllium filed implicit the “radical actions requiring COVID-19 vaccines,” portion criticizing Biden’s migration policy.

The lawyer wide wants a tribunal to find Biden’s vaccine mandate for each national workers and ample companies unconstitutional.

“This lawsuit presents circumstances that would person been unthinkable to our Founding Fathers,” the 15-page complaint begins. “The Executive Branch has adopted an unconstitutional argumentation of favoring aliens that person unlawfully entered the United States implicit existent U.S. citizens, some autochthonal and overseas born, with the inalienable close to unrecorded here. In doing so, the Biden Administration respected the putative rights of those illegally entering the United States, portion simultaneously showing contempt for the existent rights of U.S. citizens. This penchant is unlawful and violates the Equal Protection Clause.”

Biden was asked connected Friday astir imaginable lawsuits from Republican leaders and responded: “Have astatine it.”

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that radical who were not afloat vaccinated were much than 10 times much apt to beryllium hospitalized and 11 times much apt to dice from COVID-19 than those who had received a afloat vaccination.

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