The Nashville-based media outlet The Daily Wire on Thursday filed a lawsuit with the goal of blocking President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.
The mandate would require companies with 100 or more workers to mandate the coronavirus vaccine or weekly testing for unvaccinated individuals.
Additionally, the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, argues that the move by the federal government is unconstitutional.
The organization has pledged to ignore the regulation.
“The Daily Wire will not comply with President Biden’s tyrannical vaccine mandate, and we are suing the Biden Administration to put a stop to their gross overreach,” said Daily Wire Co-Founder and Co-CEO Jeremy Boreing. “President Biden, the federal government, social media, and the establishment media have conspired to rob Americans of their freedoms in the name of public health. They have broken faith with the American people through conflicting messaging, false information, and by suppressing data and perspectives with which they disagree.”
The organization’s attorneys will also file an emergency motion to stop the mandate.
“The federal government lacks the legal authority to compel private employers to play the role of vaccine or COVID police, lack the police power to force private employees to undergo medical treatment, and may not ignore constitutional limits on its ability to regulate every aspect of our lives,” an attorney representing the group added.
States and companies throughout the country are resisting the newly-imposed restriction. Additional lawsuits have been filed against the mandate.
The Arizona Sun Times reported, “After filing the first lawsuit in the country to stop President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for businesses with over 100 employees, federal employees and federal contractors, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is now amending it to request a temporary restraining order and nationwide preliminary injunction.”
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Photo “Daily Wire Lawsuit Video” by Ben Shapiro.
