Vaccine mandates: Supreme Court has upheld state and localhttps://www.cnn.com › 2021/12/29 › politics › supreme-c...
Dec 29, 2021 — A Supreme Court that has declined to block several types of vaccine mandates is now considering whether to allow the Biden administration to ...
Jacobson v. Massachusetts :: 197 US 11 (1905) - Justia US ...https://supreme.justia.com › cases › federal
A state may enact a compulsory vaccination law, since the legislature has the discretion to decide whether vaccination is the best way to prevent smallpox ...
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Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the authority of states to enforce ...
Kind of my point. States may well have the power to impose vaccine mandates, but not the Federal government.
As I recall, the Jacobson case involved a fine of $5 imposed when he refused a small pox vaccination. SCOTUS did not say that he had to take the vaccine, but rather the town, acting under a state law, could fine him.
The Founders never intended for the Federal government (President or Congress) to have this kind of power over American citizens. Take a quick look at the enumerated powers (Article 1, Section 8) and see if you can find anything remotely looking like the power to impose medical procedures on people.
It’s also worth noting that small pox was quite contagious and had a fairly high mortality rate and that even in 1905 the small pox vaccine was well known to prevent infection and subsequent contagion. Not quite the case for the China virus vaccines.
This is not to say that a creative liberal judge won’t find something hiding in a ‘penumbra’ somewhere, but it really just isn’t in there.