Offsite Post: ‘Twists and Turns in the Fight against Tyrants’

 

Stories from the Southland and elsewhere detailing some of the recent ups and downs in this battle.

I.  State Attorneys General Interpose

Just as Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolutions and Madison’s Virginia Resolution recommend:

 

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Eighteen states filed three separate lawsuits Friday to stop President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing that the requirement violates federal law.

 

Attorneys general from Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming signed on to one lawsuit, which was filed in a federal district court in Missouri. Another group of states including Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Georgia.

 

Texas also sued individually on Friday.

 

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The only surprise here is that AG Landry is not among them.

II.  A State Legislature Finally Gets It Right with COVID

Tennessee shows the right way forward.  Some provisions of the bill passed by her State Legislature:

 

--All governmental and private entities would be barred from requiring proof of having taken COVID shots. They also couldn't take adverse actions or deny employment based on vaccination status. In other words, Tennessee is applying existing anti-discrimination law that is rigorously enforced in every other realm to the issue and time where it is needed most. The only exceptions are those who are signed on as federal contractors and have already signed their lives away to the federal government.

--Authorizes unemployment benefits for those who quit their jobs due to any requirement.

--Provides a cause of action for anyone injured by the vaccine as a result of an employer asking the individual to receive it.

--Except in a few circumstances, this bill completely bars any local governmental entity or schools from requiring someone to wear a mask or taking adverse action against people for not covering their faces. Anyone injured as a result of a mask mandate can sue in court. Masks can be required under "severe conditions," but just for 14 days, and medical exemptions must be accepted. The original House bill also banned even private entities from implanting a mandate, but the Senate took it out.

Will other States that have blustered about their commitment to liberty in the past have the courage to follow suit?

III.  Challenging Woke Corporate Power

As this is coming from Sen Marco Rubio, who is more Establishment Republican than populist disrupter, hopefully it is a sign that ideas like this will soon become an integral part of the Republican Party’s platform.  Here is a little of what he had to say earlier at a gathering of conservatives in Orlando:

 

First, that means getting wokeness out of the boardroom. At a minimum, we should require that the leadership of large companies be subject to strict scrutiny and legal liability when they abuse their corporate privilege by pushing wasteful, anti-American nonsense.

 

For example, we can use the current “shareholder primacy” argument against these companies. Right now, the burden is on the shareholder to prove these woke, anti-American stances—like boycotting a state for governing its own election laws—are bad for shareholders. Instead, we should place the burden on the company to prove it is acting in the best interest of shareholders.

IV.  The Empire Strikes Back

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2021/11/garlington-twists-and-turns-in-the-fight-against-tyrants/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!