Dems jump on court-packing agenda after Supremes rule on COVID mandate

Liberal commentators took to social media to express their disappointment following the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday that Biden’s mandate, passed through the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), was unconstitutional, invoking the “major questions” doctrine and ruling that Congress did not grant OSHA the authority to issue the mandate.

Liberals expressed their dismay immediately following the decision, with many calling for an overhaul of the Supreme Court, as well as reform of the filibuster.

This Court ruling against the OSHA vaccine mandate, more than anything about the voting rights bill, to me illustrates the profound problem with the filibuster.

Bad: A bunch of people will die because of this ruling.

But the concern about executive unilateralism isn’t crazy.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 13, 2022

Every time the Supreme Court does something terrible, I’m reminded of the stakes of the 2016 election. That was the big one. It’s obvious spilled milk now. But.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 13, 2022

“Remember when I said that the Supreme Court would stop the entire Biden agenda and so reforming the Supreme Court should be his number 1 priority and he said he’d make a ‘commission to study it.’ And reform was left to die?,” Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation, tweeted Thursday. “This is why we fail.” – READ MORE