The Attorney General of Arizona Mark Brnovich is living up to his promise and that of Governor Doug Ducey in response to the terrifyingly authoritarian power grab of the Biden-Harris regime’s private-sector vaccine mandate. On September 14th the Arizona AG announced in a press release that Arizona now sues to stop the mandate. The Arizona AG has based much of his legal argument on a stunning admission by Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki that illegal immigrants coming over our southern border are not required to be vaccinated. Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked “It is a requirement for people at a business with more than a hundred people but not for migrants coming over the border, Why?” Psaki dodged the question and merely replied curtly “correct”.
Peter Doocy: Biden is mandating all Americans to get vaccinated but not illegal immigrants at the southern border.
Psaki: "That's correct." pic.twitter.com/eZpUw618d9
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 10, 2021
The First Legal Resistance To Biden’s Unconstitutional Mandate – Arizona Sues
In his complaint, Brnovich writes,
“The illegality and incoherence of Defendants’ policies is also apparent in
their differential treatment among immigrants. Those who illegally enter the United States
will not be subject to any vaccination mandate. In stark contrast, aliens who go through
legal channels to obtain work visas, lawfully enter the United States, and are employed by
a company with more than 99 workers, will be subject to the vaccination mandate.
Defendants’ policies thus discriminate between immigrants by unconstitutionally favoring
those who illegally entered the United States over those who lawfully did so.
Defendants’ unlawful actions here, however, are but one piece of a greater
series of constitutionally improper actions: one of the greatest infringements upon
individual liberties, principles of federalism, and separation of powers ever attempted by
any administration in the history of our Republic. Defendants’ ambitions are not limited
to exceeding their delegated powers and violating the Constitution merely through
unconstitutional discrimination alone. Instead, they intend inter alia to (1) violate the
rights of citizens to bodily integrity, (2) violate principles of federalism, under which the
federal government has only enumerated powers, by exercising the sort of general police
power reserved solely to the States under the Tenth Amendment, and
(3) unconstitutionally subvert Congress’s authority by exercising quintessentially
legislative powers, and in a manner that could never pass either (let alone both) Houses of
Congress today—which is precisely why Defendants have no intent whatsoever to ask for
legislative authorization to take such unprecedented actions.”
“Under our Constitution, the President is not a king who can exercise this sort of unbridled power unilaterally. And even George III wouldn’t have dreamed that he could enact such sweeping policies by royal decree alone.”
Republican Governors including Texas’ Greg Abbott, South Dakota’s Kristi Noem, Wyoming’s Mark Gordon, and even Arizona’s Doug Ducey and Georgia’s Brian Kemp and business leaders such as Ben Shapiro have vowed to fight the unconstitutional mandate, but it is in Arizona it seems, where the hammer will fall first.
