jeered last month in alabama all because he said perhaps the most honest thing he s ever uttered. take the vaccines. i did it. it s good. it s a personal choice all right. tell people the truth or risk not having them like you. let s start tonight with cnn s chief national affairs correspondent. we heard the president tell republican governors to, quote, have at it. what else is the white house saying tonight about the likely legal challenges? reporter: the white house does believe they are on solid legal footing and this is why. they point to a 1970 act by congress, very important here as it is challenged in the courts. this is a congressional act. it is osha, the occupational safety and health act. it keeps all of our workplaces safe. if it is from fire escapes to other matters anything that would keep from grave danger at your workplace. the white house believes after much research that this is the way they think they can get more people vaccinated because they believe this is a g
chief national affairs correspondent, jeff zeleny. jeff, we heard the president tell republican governors to, quote, have at it. what else is the white house saying tonight about these likely legal challenges? well, john, the white house does believe that they re on solid legal footing and this is why. they they point to a 1970 act by congress. very important here as it s challenged in the courts. this is a congressional act. it s osha. it is the occupational safety and health act. it keeps all of our workplaces safe. if it s from, you know, fire escapes to other matters. anything that would keep from grave danger at your workplace. and the white house believes, after much research, that this is the way they think they can get more people vaccinated because they believe this is a grave danger in the workplace. so, this is the legal strategy, the legal framework they are going to go through here. and despite all the bluster from republican governors across the country, it will not b
this authority. the department of labor back in 1970 under a statute called the asha act was basically given power to regulate workplace safety. so everything from ladders to ventilation to fire escapes, and covid kills people, and so the argument is that workers need to be safe from infection in workplace. so congress gave this power to the department of labor over 50 years ago. i think there s very, very scant chance of a federal koucourt ory court stepping in and stopping this. even with this u.s. supreme court? again, the way this works is you have to look to the power of congress. congress passes off power to agencies all the time. so in the past when this court has tinkered with what presidents have done like the daca program under president obama, ultimately the court, this supreme court prior to amy
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