ADF to OSHA: Immediately withdraw unlawful proposal to make vaccine mandate permanent
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding a public comment ADF submitted Wednesday to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration opposing its proposal to make the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard permanent in any way:
“Mandating vaccines through an OSHA emergency rule is an alarming example of government overreach, and the Biden administration should immediately withdraw its unlawful proposal to make the mandate permanent. This proposed standard violates religious liberty, exceeds the agency’s authority under OSHA’s statutes, and runs afoul of other constitutional protections. Furthermore, the U.S. Supreme Court recently halted enforcement of the mandate, concluding that the federal administrative state has no authority to treat unvaccinated employees in all companies like workplace hazards and to compel those employers to carry out the government’s unlawful national vaccine mandate.”
ADF represents multiple clients in the consolidated cases challenging the mandate at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
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ABOUT Matt Bowman
Matt Bowman serves as senior counsel and director of regulatory practice for Alliance Defending Freedom, where he leads the team focusing on the impact of administrative law on religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and family. From 2017 to 2020, Bowman was a senior executive service appointee in the Trump administration, serving the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as Deputy General Counsel, and then in the Office for Civil Rights. Prior to joining HHS, Bowman was an accomplished litigator at ADF for over ten years. Before joining ADF in 2006, Bowman served as a law clerk for Judges Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Michael A. Chagares, at the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and for Judge John M. Roll at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. Bowman earned his J.D. summa cum laude and was first in his class at Ave Maria School of Law in 2003. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and Michigan and is admitted to practice at the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal appellate and district courts.