A.G. Gancarski
Days after vowing to “aggressively push back” against COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates pending in the Head Start program, Florida’s Attorney General has taken action.
Ashley Moody announced Tuesday she had signed on to a multi-state challenge to new rules pending for staffers and students in the federal program. Time is of the essence for this challenge.
If the rule by the federal Children and Families Administration survives this legal challenge, vaccinations will be required for teachers, contractors and volunteers in Florida Head Start programs by Jan. 31, 2022.
“Joining Attorney General Moody in taking legal action to stop the unlawful mandates are attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming,” Moody’s office announced.
The complaint against the federal department of Health and Human Services and related defendants was filed with the Western District of Louisiana, with that state’s Attorney General atop the plaintiff list.
Moody drew on motherhood in objecting to the rule.
“As a mother, I am very concerned about the latest federal mandates being forced on Head Start staff and students — children as young as two-years old will be required to wear masks and teachers will be forced to receive a vaccination against their will. I am fighting to stop this federal overreach, just as I have fought to protect Floridians against the previous unlawful mandates forced on us by the federal government,” Moody asserted.
The 65-page complaint contends the mandate is “arbitrary and capricious.” It holds that the mandate discriminates against poorer and rural populations, and could serve to “segregate” masked Head Start students from the unmasked masses.
The complaint holds that the mandate would harm “family well-being.”
“It intrudes into fundamental decisions about whether a toddler must wear a mask at school. It also imposes obligations on parents picking children up from school. (And it is likely to result in numerous children not even having a school to attend.) It goes straight to the heart of the allocation of power between State and family,” the Attorneys General hold.
Moody hinted earlier this month that action would be pending, during an appearance on the Fox Business Channel. As she did in the press release, she drew on her own experience as a parent for narrative ballast.
“As a mom, not only does that appall me, because children (as young) as 2 years old will have to be masked. But most of these teachers in these Head Start programs, I want to say 85%, are women who will now be forced to be vaccinated,” Moody said. “This is a new mandate that not too many folks are focusing on. Of course, I’m a mom paying very close attention to what’s being mandated for our children and our teachers, and I will aggressively push back on this newest mandate.”
11 comments
PeterH
December 21, 2021 at 6:13 pm
Moody will lose again! Schools have imposed vaccinations for DECADES!
Alex
December 21, 2021 at 6:26 pm
She’s just following the Trumpian script that’s nothing more than rebellious selfishness and immaturity.
nail
December 21, 2021 at 6:55 pm
The lawsuit she signed onto to from TX last yr for trumps BIG LIE, she was one of 26 state AG’s . The court has ruled that she and the other AGs will be charged in Nov 2022 after the election. FL had no standing, neither did any state and TX.
These trumplicans and desantis have to go in 2022. He and his puppy Moody did not do anything about the 3 voter frauds in The Villages, didn’t do anything about the 3 ghost candidates where 2 were indicted, and desantis knew about Gaetz but they did nothing. The FBI has to be called in for all of these cases because desantis and moody do not do their jobs for the state. But they answer the dog whistle for anything the dregs of the earth base wants.
Jerry
December 21, 2021 at 10:38 pm
Vaccination rules for schools are imposed by the STATE and local governments, not the federal government. It’s always been that way. When your school required vaccines when you were a kid, it was following state laws and guidelines. It was not following the Feds.
What we are seeing by the Biden administration is a power grab. The federal government has never mandated masks and vaccinations beyond it’s own federal property, even during past pandemics has that ever been attempted. The federal government doesn’t have that power. And that’s what the Supreme Court is going to rule. State governments can mandate the vaccine. The federal government cannot. The states hold the power.
Alex
December 21, 2021 at 11:04 pm
I’m amused by your claims of dictatorships and power grabs and emergency powers, while being on the side of the 1/6 terrorist attack to subvert the constitution and democracy by force.
If I were you, I’d be careful of wearing flammable clothing while reciting the Pledge.
PeterH
December 22, 2021 at 12:56 am
Total nonsense Jerry! January 6th was an attempted power grab! The polio vaccine of 1950’s was a FEDERAL MANDATE.
Frankie M.
December 21, 2021 at 6:42 pm
But is she ok with it as a human?
Alex
December 21, 2021 at 8:32 pm
She doesn’t give a shit.
This is all about some irrational “parents rights” movement to legally force the tax payers to fund sending their kids to far right religious schools to turn out little carbon copies of “patriots” that watch Fox and nod their little hollow heads in unison.
Alex
December 21, 2021 at 8:56 pm
She’s ok with it as a far right nut where parents think their kids are like property.
James Carter
December 22, 2021 at 10:42 am
Who exactly is trying to subvert the Constitution? Who is trying to “power grab?” Who is attempting to give non-citizens the right to vote?” Who is challenging state’s rights? Who is talking about Court packing? I could go on.
The left needs to move on from their political strategy of Trump, Trump, Trump! He is not a threat to you, the people are. Check out the polls.
Soros, Clintons, Warren, etc. are the idols of the Left. A corrupt political manipulating billionaire who is band in other countries, one a womanizer and the other still saying she won the election, and paid for the false charges that Trump was a Russian agent, finally a liar. To repeat myself, I could go on.
The left is afraid, the polls clearly show they are in trouble come the mid-term election. Instead of more reasonable Bills, closing the border, etc. they will just yell louder, like the spoiled rich children they are.
PeterH
December 22, 2021 at 12:28 pm
Trumpster’s January 6th attempted coup!
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