administration s vaccine policies into question. and so, that s why the court has agreed to hear these cases, to review these lower court decisions, and you re absolutely right that the osha act, that 1970 law, has very broad language in it that allows an emergency rule if a rule is necessary to shield workers from a dangerous substance, and osha has a lot of different regulations. indeed, there used to be an instagram account with 650,000 followers on it making fun of just how much osha regulates. and if osha can regulate, like, having open water bottles in the workplace, i kind of think they should be able to regulate things like pandemic response and the like, and it s astounding to me that these republican governors have come in challenging this in the court. it s kind of brave for them. if i had botched that many, you know, caused that many deaths by my pandemic response, i d never show my face in public again, but these folks are going and
right that the osha act, that 1970 law, has very broad language in it that allows an emergency rule if a rule is necessary to shield workers from a dangerous substance, and osha has a lot of different regulations. indeed, there used to be an instagram account with 650,000 followers on it making fun of just how much osha regulates. and if osha can regulate, like, having open water bottles in the workplace, i kind of think they should be able to regulate things like pandemic response and the like, and it s astounding to me that these republican governors have come in challenging this in the court. it s kind of brave for them. if i had botched that many, you know, caused that many deaths by my pandemic response, i d never show my face in public again, but these folks are going and filing lawsuits. it s kind of like, you know, paul von hindenburg going on a national blimp tour. it s a good thing you re not a republican governor, neal, because we wouldn t have you on the show, you d have
a chromium pit or an acid vat. if not that s everywhere in the world when you walk out of the workplace, it s still there no matter where you go. the school, the church, the shopping mall. this isn t a workplace issue, it s a public health issue and just like everything else that this administration is doing, he s trying to pound around peg into a square hole. laura: attorney general moody, there s another portion of this filing that states in determining the type of health effects that may constitute a grave danger under the osha act, the fifth circuit emphasized the danger of incurable, permanent, or fatal consequences to workers as opposed to easily curable and fleeting effects on the health but i ve got to say wait a minute, covid sounds like the latter. it s a temporary sickness, not a long-term disability. i know there s long covid and people of talked that, but overwhelmingly, it s a
make sure the sovereignty in court. an actual line in the regulatory filing they claim the osha act gives the labor secretary almost unlimited discretion to achieve this goal of protecting employee health. is that? it is absolutely not correct, the president is not our nanny, not a doctor and not the congress, laws are written by elected representatives, not by executive fiat and congress did not have that much authority in the osha act to reach this far. supposed to have workplace limitations, railing to keep you from falling off the
they believe it is so based on the osha act. tells the department of labor and administration they have a responsibility to ensure the workplace is safe for workers. just because you can does not mean you should. the vaccine mandates makes the issue overtly political and could discourage some from getting their shots. many businesses are. i think the federal government s action to require federal employees to be vaccinated. in a function there of federal readiness. that gives more private sector businesses to implement their own mandates. i don t think we have to reach down to a small business with 100 or more employees and put a