Green Bay Reporter

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s attempt to enforce a vaccine mandate, a decision Sen. Ron Johnson supports.

The mandate would’ve affected approximately 84 million workers, a Supreme Court document stated.

“At least some sanity has been returned by SCOTUS blocking OSHA’s vaccine mandate,” Johnson wrote on Twitter.

Last year, President Joe Biden announced his attempt to get Americans vaccinated. However, recently, he decided to not enforce a vaccination mandate for large companies.

“The Court has ruled that my administration cannot use the authority granted to it by Congress to require this measure, but that does not stop me from using my voice as president to advocate for employers to do the right thing to protect Americans’ health and economy,” Biden said to the Daily Mail.

The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Biden's/OSHA vaccine mandate, stating it is a federal overreach of power.

“Consistent with Congress’s directives, OSHA has long regulated risks that arise both inside and outside of the workplace,” the document said. “For example, OSHA has issued, and applied to nearly all workplaces, rules combating risks of fire, faulty electrical installations, and inadequate emergency exits — even though the dangers prevented by those rules arise not dissenting only in workplaces but in many physical facilities.”

The Supreme Court said OSHA has the authority to impose regulations about COVID-19 but must make the distinction between workplace safety and general public health measures.

“Imposing a vaccine mandate on 84 million Americans in response to a worldwide pandemic is simply not part of what the agency was built for,” it said. 

OSHA has never imposed a broad public health mandate. The Supreme Court document stated that not even Congress has made such a move.

“Although Congress has enacted significant legislation addressing the COVID–19 pandemic, it has declined to enact any measure similar to what OSHA has promulgated here,” according to the document. “Many states, businesses and nonprofit organizations challenged OSHA’s rule in Courts of Appeals across the country.”