Mississippi Attorney General files suit against vaccine mandate

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has joined two other attorney generals in filing a lawsuit to stop President Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

Governor Reeves said he wanted to see a lawsuit filed by the end of the week.

According to the AG’s Office, Mississippi joins Louisiana and Indiana in the suit to halt what they call President Biden’s “vastly overreaching vaccination mandate.”

Attorney General Fitch says “In an effort to check the box on universal vaccination, President Biden has vastly overreached his authority, putting the jobs of one-fifth of the American workforce in jeopardy and violating vital principals.”

Among other things, the complaint notes that “the Biden Administration failed to connect the mandate with any statutory language that might authorize taking the action.”