Wed Jan 19, 2022 – 7:58 am ESTWed Jan 19, 2022 – 7:59 am EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Two conservative Supreme Court justices wrote scathing dissenting opinions eviscerating the 5-4 decision in Biden v. Missouri, which allowed the federal government to impose a universal mandate for workers in facilities that receive Medicaid and Medicare funding to take the experimental COVID-19 shot.
Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito (who were appointed by Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, respectively) each wrote a dissent, in which the minority’s three other justices joined.
The lawsuit’s outcome hinged on convincing the high court that a constellation of disparate regulations pertaining to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) actually held within them the authority to order a sweeping, nationwide vaccine mandate.
“The support for the argument that the Federal Government possesses such authority is so obscure that the main argument now pressed by the Government — that the authority is conferred by a hodgepodge of scattered provisions — was not prominently set out by the Government until its reply brief in this Court,” wrote Alito. “Before concluding that the Federal Government possesses this authority, we should demand stronger statutory proof than has been mustered to date.”
The Biden administration argued that its authority to mandate vaccines for all CMS workers is indeed contained in a select scattering of very short phrases. “Health
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