The vaccine mandate the Biden administration imposed is one of the more egregious abuses of federal power in recent memory. Nowhere does our Constitution confer upon the federal government authority to force private citizens to inject vaccines into their bodies. Nor does it allow the federal government to dragoon private employers, on pain of massive fines, into compelling that same result.
An absence of legal authority, however, seemingly poses no constraint on the administration’s ambition to decide for all Americans how they should protect themselves from COVID-19. When he announced the vaccine mandate, President Biden said his decision was “not about freedom or personal choice.” “My job as president,” Biden said, “is to protect all Americans.”
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