At least two dozen attorneys general in the US are joining together in opposition to President Joe Biden’s plan to mandate private sector companies with more than 100 employees require workers get a COVID vaccine shot.
Employees can instead submit to weekly testing. If they refuse both, they would be fired.
Louisiana AG Jeff Landry Landry says Biden has forgotten the US is a republic, not a monarchy.
“This will take less choices and more freedoms away from American citizens rather than granting them more in educating how we can protect ourselves.”
Landry says Biden can expect a legal battle if he follows through with his COVID vaccine mandate for larger employers.
“If he attempts to do so, if he attempts to take choices away from the American people; we are going to stand up and take him to court,” said Landry.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has not come down one way or the other on the Biden mandate, but says he favors doing the right thing when it comes to protecting the public at large from Covid-19.
“Sometimes we focus so much on what we have a right to do or a right not to do that we forget to focus on the right thing to do,” Edwards said, “Those choices have consequences not just for themselves, but for society as a whole… we also have a right not to be unreasonably exposed to dangers from others.”
