Alan Dershowitz Says The Courts Will Rule Against Biden Concerning Mandate Penalties

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Sep 13, 2021

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz believes that the courts will end up agreeing that the federal government does possess the political power to enforce a vaccine mandate, but they will go on to say that the rules and the punishments connected to the mandate will have to come out of Congress, not from President Joe Biden.

Dershowitz also told the hosts of the Newsmax program, “American Agenda,” that he fully expects the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a preliminary ruling within the next month concerning whether Biden should have issued the mandates, and what direction that decision will go largely depends on the answers to a couple of important questions.

“No. 1, is this something the federal government can do as compared to the states?” Dershowitz went on to say. “The states have police power. The federal government doesn’t have police power. The federal government’s powers have to derive from the text of the Constitution.”

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Also, he asked if the federal government can “violate bodily integrity” and require mandates, and the third, and determining question, is if the first two questions are answered yes, can the president order mandates rather than Congress.

“That’s the one I think the courts will answer no,” Dershowitz explained. “I think the courts will say the federal government does have the power because this is a national issue across the state lines. It’s not limited to states. It’s contagious.

“I think they will say that in the event that science supports it, there can be mandated vaccinations with exceptions,” he continued.

However, while Dershowitz said he thinks the courts will say that the legislature, after holding hearings, can order mandates, the key question remains if the president will have the authority alone to order an emergency and order punishments.

“That’s generally relegated to the legislature in our system of government, so I think the courts will focus on that issue first and say that the president may not have the authority to do this without congressional authorization,” the law professor emeritus said.

It would have been better for Biden to follow the Constitution with his order, he continued, because “in the end, the end should not justify the means.”

“You can’t say it’s an emergency,” Dershowitz went on. “This problem has existed since the first day of the Biden administration, and it will continue to exist on the last day of the Biden administration because we’re not going to see an end of COVID.”

“We’re going to see COVID become like the flu. Seasonal different variations, different vaccinations, so it shouldn’t be done under the rubric of emergency. It should be done under the rubric of ordinary congressional power,” Dershowitz said.

He also stated that he doesn’t think the courts will make any determinations concerning the allowance of religious or other exemptions from the mandate until it determines if the president actually has the authority to make the rules instead of Congress.

Dershowitz then stated that once the lawsuits come pouring in over this mandate, there will be three different kinds of defendants.

“There will be individuals who will be fired, and they’ll sue immediately,” he went on to say. “There will be companies — and I know there are some already who said we refuse to obey this mandate — and we’ve had companies and states indicate they’re going to file suit. This is going to be a big payday for lawyers, unfortunately, but it will get the case to court right away.”