Biden admin files emergency order to immediately reinstate its sweeping vaccine mandate on private companies after appeals court put it on hold

BREAKING NEWS: Biden administration files emergency order to immediately reinstate its sweeping vaccine mandate on private companies after an appeals court knocked it down and its enforcement was suspended

• Joe Biden’s Justice Department filed a lawsuit with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reimplement OSHA’s new workplace vaccine-or-test mandate
• Challenges to the rule were consolidated last week in the Cincinnati-area court
• The lawsuit comes after the Fifth Circuit Court in New Orleans upheld its pause on the rule requiring private industry to mandate vaccines or weekly testing
• OSHA paused implementation after the stay on the mandate was upheld 

Joe Biden filed an emergency lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to immediately reinstate his vaccine mandate for private employers with 100 or more workers after the rule faced a series of legal challenges.

Earlier this month, the Fifth Circuit Court in New Orleans issued a preliminary pause on the order, which prevented the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from moving forward in implementing the employer rules.

The Justice Department argues in its filing, according to The Wall Street Journal, that the rules reflect ‘OSHA’s judgment that these measures are necessary to mitigate Covid-19 transmission in the workplace, and the grievous harms the virus inflicts on workers.’

Several Republican-led states, employers, unions and other organizations filed lawsuits against the administration’s order.