https://newsmax.com/politics/desantis-roberts-kavanaugh-vaccine-mandate/2022/01/14/id/1052524/
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In a guest appearance on a conservative podcast Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh for lacking a ''backbone'' in their ruling on the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for certain health workers.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed the healthcare worker mandate to go into effect but blocked enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees. Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with the liberal justices on the healthcare worker mandate.
''On the nurse mandate and the doctor mandate, Roberts and Kavanaugh joined with the liberals to allow the nurse mandate,'' DeSantis said on the podcast “Ruthless.” ''Now, in Florida, we protected the nurses, so we have people that are working. But in other states, they fired nurses who were not vaccinated.''
DeSantis, a Republican, said that some hospitals are so short-staffed that they're allowing vaccinated but COVID-positive employees to rreturn to work.
''So, they have COVID-positive people back on. Meanwhile, the unvaccinated, likely immune through prior infection, healthy nurses are on the sidelines fired,'' he added. ''How insane are these policies?''
''Roberts and Kavanaugh did not have a backbone on that decision,'' DeSantis said. ''That's just the bottom line.''