By State Rep. Brooks Landgraf
Life on earth is already hard enough. We don’t need the federal government making it harder.
Thankfully, the writers of the Constitution provided a mechanism to check executive power, and that is why we have taken the fight to the judicial system
That’s why I signed an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Court objecting to the Biden Administration’s overreaching and unprecedented COVID-19 vaccine mandate affecting 84 million workers, including many West Texans.
Simply put, this brief that I signed with other leaders here in Texas challenges the constitutionality of the Biden administration’s federal mandate and calls for it to be overturned.
Like many Texans, I’m fed up with government overreach into our daily lives. The Biden administration has abandoned the limited government principles set forth in our Constitution. The individual liberties of Americans are under attack in a way that hasn’t been seen since Soviet-era McCarthisim.
The COVID-19 vaccine mandate is being enforced by the Biden Administration’s U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This federal mandate compels private businesses with 100 employees or more to require all employees to be vaccinated by January 4, 2022 or face weekly COVID-19 testing.
I will continue to use every tool available to fight back against Biden’s personal healthcare mandates on Texans.
More than half the states, including Texas, have filed lawsuits challenging President Biden’s various vaccine mandates. These states are joined by pro-business, educational, manufacturing, faith, labor, staffing, and medical interests and advocates challenging the order.
Last month, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling for a stay on the OSHA mandate. With heightened legal advocacy in Texas and other U.S. states, I join many of you in hoping the mandate is overturned permanently.
Until then, I will keep fighting this battle, along with those on other fronts that have resulted from the federal government’s war on the welfare and individual liberties of Texans.
And for the record, this opposition is not about the vaccine itself. It’s about the proper role of government in our lives. In fact, I encourage everyone who is eligible to get it, but I respect that it is your choice to decide—not the government’s.
God bless Texas!
