TAMPA — The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against the President Biden administration, challenging the constitutionality of federal contractor COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine mandates.
What You Need To Know
- Lawsuit challenges the federal government’s order imposing a vaccine mandate on federal contractors
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he is trying to save jobs in Florida
- The Biden federal rule is going into effect on Dec. 8; injunction seeks to stop it
The Biden federal rule is going into effect on Dec. 8.
The lawsuit filed in the Middle District of Florida in Tampa seeks an injunction to prevent that.
DeSantis said he is trying to save jobs in Florida.
"Just because you're a business that has federal contracts, it's not right for the federal government to just rewrite those contracts and then try to shoehorn this in,” he said Thursday. “And then if you don't comply...you either have to fire people or if you don't comply, you just cancel the contract entirely even though this is something that you bid for and you won fair and square.
“That's not the way business should be done. We don't think they have the authority to do that."
Attorney General Ashley Moody added: “Mandating vaccines is not the role of the federal government … this is not a dictatorship.”
She added there could be “disruptions in the economy” if the lawsuit is not successful.
We’ll add details to this story as they become available.