DeSantis signs bills blocking Biden administration COVID vaccine mandates in Florida

[Zorro]

Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune

TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Thursday measures countering the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test requirement for larger businesses, which he drove Florida's Republican-led Legislature to endorse.

“Nobody in Florida should be losing their jobs over these jabs,” DeSantis said at a signing ceremony in the Hillsborough County community of Brandon.

Florida Democrats had derided DeSantis' call for a special session this week, saying it was largely a political stage for the governor to enhance his national image with conservative voters.

But the laws enacted Thursday are designed to blunt any vaccine mandate from taking effect in Florida, whether coming from the federal government or cities and counties. They also bolster DeSantis' position in his long-running opposition to mask requirements in schools.

Read more: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/11/18/desantis-signs-bills-blocking-biden-administration-covid-vaccine-mandate/8664181002/

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The Mouse will not be pleased.

[orleans]

1. ...

"Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution is commonly referred to as the Supremacy Clause. It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause#:~:text=Article%20VI%2C%20Paragraph%202%20of,laws%2C%20and%20even%20state%20constitutions.

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i don't know about presidential mandates tho

[ancianita]

5. Guess 19 of these governors are gonna see Biden in court.

[pwb]

2. If Governors don't want to be part of the Union.

They should lose all federal funding for everything.

[snowybirdie]

3. What's he going to do

Now that Disney Cruises has mandated vaccination for passengers? Poor guy, between a rock.......etc.

[machoneman]

11. Yeah, the more laws he pushes the worse it gets as scores of businesses give him the finger...

...every day. And he knows they are doing so but is helpless, no matter what laws, fines, etc. he talks about, to do anything about it. Heck, I say he's a coward for not advancing lawsuits against the defiant, starting with Disney and all the cruise lines, airlines, wtc. Why? He knows any lawsuit will be thrown out post haste.

Point is, he'd be wiser to stop all the law-writing foolishness, thereby avoiding confusion among passengers and event he public at large. Ah, but he's hooked on the media publishing his every move in hopes it garners him more votes. The dipshit doesn't realize that only his current base may vote his way while independents and undecideds see through his phony smokescreen.

In any event, his antics are not gaining him any votes from this group and may even cause some R's to either not vote for him at all or vote in a primary for a (much) better successor.

[paleotn]

4. Nullification!!!

Haven't we been here before?

[FloridaBlues]

6. Mandates are working more people getting vaxed. It will be interesting to see how courts will handle

The law suites coming up on mandates. Still federal law supersedes state laws. Can’t stand our Governor, he ranks right up there with Rick Scott who was an awful Governor.
We know how to pick them down here!

[HockeyMom]

15. Problem is that this is not a Federal Law

Only the Legislative Branch (Congress) can pass Federal Laws, not the Executive Branch (President). Why he issued an Executive Order instead, and used OSHA to get around it. Does OSHA have power to mandate this in the first place across all Industries? OSHA has issued a statement that they will not enforce this mandate pending final litigation. Meaning the Supreme Court?

In the past it was States who issued these vaccine mandates (like Jacobson v. MA.), not the Federal Government.

[Zorro]

7. DeSantis signed the legislation in Brandon Florida

Just because it’s Brandon…and he’s a complete asshole.

[pfitz59]

8. Seriously?

What a douche!

[StClone]

9. DeSantis says "Touche"

Because it's a Trump move. T From Trump and douche = Touche.

[24601]

14. For everyone's info - Brandon is an unincorporated suburb in Hillsborough County.

Brandon is east of Tampa and about 5 miles north of us.

[kacekwl]

10. By that reasoning President Biden

could sign a EO stopping any federal aid / money to Florida. Let DeSantis is explain that to Floridians.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Is this not murder 1?

Taking steps guaranteed to kill people — in this case, children?

Something is very wrong.

[Alien Life Form]

13. DeSantis next move

Next repeal that Nazi-like law that mandates restaurant employees wash their hands after they go to the bathroom!
/s