The Tom Wood Show, episode 2006, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

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Hey everybody, today I thought I would take some time to go through the decision

of the fifth circuit to affirm the stay of the Biden vaccine mandates. I'm sure I'm not alone

in thinking that the vaccine mandate is the most important issue in the United States right now.

So I wanted to see what the reasoning was behind the court's decision. So I want to run through this.

I'm going to post the whole document if you'd like to read it yourself at Tomwoods.com slash 2006.

On November 6th, the court issued a stay. They said that they would stay the mandate, which is to say they

would in effect stop its implementation pending briefing and expedited judicial review.

And now they say in this document of November 12th, having conducted that expedited review,

we reaffirm our initial stay. Of course, I think most people know the terms of the mandate,

which is that companies with 100 or more employees would have to have all their employees vaccinated

or undergo weekly testing and wear masks. And it's not clear exactly where the cost of the testing

would fall, but presumably the worker is going to have to bear that on some level anyway.

The court points out that the petitioners in the case have standing. So it can proceed. That is

to say that the matter at hand affects them directly. And so they the court explains their

standing to sue is obvious. The mandate imposes a financial burden upon them by deputizing their

participation in OSHA's regulatory scheme. Because remember, the mandate is being carried through via

the occupational safety and health administration. They're claiming that this body deals with

health matters in the workplace. And so this is how we're going to enforce this. So anyway,

so it does that. It exposes them to severe financial risk if they refuse or fail to comply

and threatens to decimate their workforces and business prospects by forcing unwilling employees

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