Washington – Arizona Attorney General filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try to invalidate President Biden’s latest COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers and large corporations, becoming the first state to present a legal challenge to newer rules of administration.
In a 14-page complaint filed in an Arizona federal district court, Attorney General Mark Brnovich argued that Mr. Biden’s new vaccine requirements unconstitutionally discriminate against U.S. citizens because undocumented immigrants detained by U.S. forces federal orders are not subject to a federal immunization requirement.
While the details of the policies are still being drafted and have yet to be made public, the attorney general said they are a “flagrant” violation of the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
“In short, unauthorized aliens will not be subject to any vaccination requirements even when they are released directly into the United States (where most will remain), while approximately one hundred million U.S. citizens will be subject to unprecedented vaccination requirements, ”the state told the court. “This reflects a brand of unmistakable and unconstitutional favoritism in favor of unauthorized foreigners.”
Brnovich claimed that the Biden administration’s “respect for individual rights” through vaccination warrants “seems to extend only” to undocumented migrants. It calls on the court to declare the new vaccination policies unconstitutional and to prevent the Biden administration from imposing COVD-19 vaccine warrants on U.S. citizens or legal residents that differ from those applied to undocumented migrants.
“The Biden Administration is once again rejecting our laws and precedents to push its radical agenda,” Brnovich said in a statement. “There can be no scientific or serious discussion about containing the spread of COVID-19 that does not begin on our southern border.”
Biden announced his last week new vaccination requirements, the most important that was imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to signing executive orders requiring vaccination of all federal executive workers and contractors, the president also said the Department of Labor would develop an emergency rule to require all employers with at least 100 employees to force them to your staff to be fully vaccinated or undergo regular testing.
Companies that violate the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule could be subject to fines of $ 14,000 for infraction. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters last week that there are no vaccination requirements for migrants on the southern border.
Legal experts disagree on whether Mr. Biden’s vaccine requirements are would resist legal control, and several Republican governors promised to sue the Biden administration on the next rule on vaccine requirements for private companies.
Brnovich argued that because Arizona is a border state, it “disproportionately suffers from immigration-related burdens.”
The president, however, does not seem discouraged by the threat of legal action against his new requirements. When asked on Friday what his message is to Republicans who pledge to sue, he replied, “Have it.”