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Very few sheriffs had the guts to publicly state they would not enforce unconstitutional covid mandates.

They were unconstitutional. That has been proven.

It was illegal for officers of the law to enforce them.

I don't think the primary law enforcement problem in the US is Sheriffs. Say what you will about police. These are not the same organizations.

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What specific mandates were proven unconstitutional?

Hahahhha

What!? The revisionist history begins

https://eppc.org/publication/bidens-covid-vaccine-mandates-a...

Am I missing something? A 300 word piece by a think tanker?

Honestly, I don't blame you. A genuine news release from a .gov site was not on the first couple pages of search results. However, that is by design.

https://gov.alaska.gov/supreme-court-decision-forces-biden-a...

That political press release doesn't support your earlier point that it was proven "unconstitutional." In fact review of the SCOTUS opinion shows that they (6-3) found that OSHA exceeded their congressional authority, not violated the US Constitution.

> “Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly,” the court wrote

If you want to show how this was unconstitutional then you'll need to show something else entirely. This SCOTUS opinion isn't proof of that, no matter if it is from a ".gov" site or not.

It does dawn on you that this is expressly written in a manner which entices the idea such congressional authority exists. And yet does not mean that the authority exists. One cannot grant what it does not have.

Indeed, the mandates began under the previous president.

Sorry, I'm not a team player.

But, please feel free to provide additional information

I’m not a team player either. I’m not sure what information you’re seeking.

Guy, you need to get over the covid thing.

Get over the fact that a third of people in the country will go along with anything they're told and another third are so craven and cowardly they'll accept any answer at all to assuage their own fears?

Oh, alright.

https://gov.alaska.gov/supreme-court-decision-forces-biden-a...

The Supreme Court didn't find that the employer vaccine mandate was unconstitutional, they found that it was outside of OSHA's Congressionally-approved powers. Statutory law, not constitutional.

Can you please stop making everything about COVID. There haven't been new mandates and there isn't a new world order and we're not all dying from the vaccine. Just please stop making everything about COVID. Please.

Are you talking about mask mandates or vaccine mandates?

Executive orders issued by the Biden administration

https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/90658/supreme-court-rules-...

The OHSA mandate never went into effect as far as I know. Besides even if it did go into effect it wouldn't be something a sheriff would enforce, as it is up to OHSA to enforce its mandates.

The administration used news outlets to pump the mandate and companies preemptively executed the order.

OSHA does not yet have any policing powers, this was an attempt to generate them.

So what does this have to do with your original claim of police enforcing unconstitutional mandates? Nothing? I'm losing the thread here...

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