Law Professor: States Have Authority To Fine Or Jail Coronavirus Vaccine Refusers

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The government could impose fines or jail time on citizens who refuse to “roll up their sleeves” and submit to a coronavirus vaccine, according to Dov Fox, a professor of law and director at USD’s Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics.

On top of that, vaccine refusers may even lose their jobs or be banned from entering stores, according to Fox.

States can compel vaccinations in more or less intrusive ways,” he said in an interview with ABC15 Arizona. “They can limit access to schools or services or jobs if people don’t get vaccinated. They could force them to pay a fine or even lock them up in jail.

According to Fox, this would be an unprecedented move in the United States as authorities have never attempted to jail people for refusing to vaccinate. Other countries, like France, are adopting a more aggressive tactic to address the pandemic.

America may soon follow suit.

ABC News reports:

The legal precedent dates back to 1905. In a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the court ruled Massachusetts had the authority to fine people who refused vaccinations for smallpox.

That case formed the legal basis for vaccine requirements at schools, and has been upheld in subsequent decisions.

“Courts have found that when medical necessity requires it, the public health outweighs the individual rights and liberties at stake,” Fox said.

ABC News continues:

Although states would have the authority to mandate vaccinations, there’s more doubt about whether Congress could enact a federal requirement.

The most likely federal vaccination requirement would come in the form of a tax penalty, but Fox said given the current composition of the Supreme Court, a federal vaccine requirement would likely be found unconstitutional.

Certain exemptions, such as pregnancy and medical risks, may be allowed, but ones based on religious or philosophical grounds could be thrown to the curb.

Religious exemptions are not constitutionally required by the First Amendment’s Free Exercise clause, provided that the vaccine mandates don’t single out religion; they’re not motivated by a desire to interfere with it,” Fox said.

The professor also mentioned how employers would have “a lot of flexibility to require vaccinations and fire workers who refuse them for anything but legitimate medical concerns”:

As long as employers show there are significant costs associated with having unvaccinated workers, they would not need to offer religious exemptions to employees, Fox said.

Baxter Dmitry

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20 Comments

  1. No they do not so called professor, apparently your but another talking head. If it has not been legislated, it is not law, if it is legislated and goes against the constitution, it is not law, In the words of the greatest forefather of all Thomas Jefferson, if a law is unconstitutional, it is not only your right to break it, but it is your duty. Now who do you think knows more about the constitution you or Thomas Jefferson? Bad law makes good law look bad, I offer you this Mr. so called professor, Marbury VS Madison 1803.

    • This clod must have got his law degree from SNHU…last in his class. A mandate is not a law and cops won’t enforce it. There will be rioting in the streets if the “courts” go along with his assertions.

      • No there won’t .People only riot when they are directed to by usually foreign powers And no foreign powers will direct them to riot over it.

          • I know how things work If they want civil war in America to destroy Teumo then they will promote it just like when theyre ready to set hong kong off too .

          • Don’t waste your time with him. His comments are just incoherent babble. And when you challenge him he resorts to name calling. I don’t think he is an American.

    • They do The health department has always had the legal power to lock people up ,take them prisoners in other words ,if they deem them to be a threat to community. They have had most parliaments, almost secretly. legislate that people for not have the right to refuse medical treatment when it is deemed necessary to defend community. They’ve set it a up years ago in anticipation

      • Did you read my post, regardless of what they say they can do, it is not law unless and even then if it goes against the constitution and more.

        • You haven’t understood the Director General of Health’s powers and your interpretation of the Constitution is naive .They have always been allowed to quarantine people and lock them up if they’re a threat to community health and safety. They soft sell it to mask the fact to avoid ” unpleasantness ” .

          • You like the director of General health, the elected officials of the nation both community level to general level the rights given to man by God almighty, and backed by the Constitution and this great Constitutional Republic, it is because of this ignorance by you and many others in the nation and the representatives along with an agenda to destroy God and the Republic that we have come to the point of only a Revolution to try and save the will of God and the Republic, Most people are so ignorant and led easily like sheep, it is no wonder we are in this position

        • They can quote masses of legal precedents locking people up ip in psych wards, taking them away in straight jackets or guarantening them to say see the law approve .

          • The precedents are the constitution and Marbury VS Madison 1803. You are an individual with God given rights and that is also the greatest precedent .but when you give them what they want rather than fight you lose. God also gave mankind another great gift and that is freewill, if you allow them to take that your weak, and are not willing to fight for all or any of your God given rights. No rights can be given by man or any form of government, all rights come from God. Name one right that man or government created. The forefathers understood this and that which you read in the Constitution is God’s word. You control the government, not they control you, when they control you, your the slave of satan. They are nothing but public servants do not eve give them power, they only represent the people not have power over them.

  2. Because the director general of health is a quasi military post .Its them at war against their citizens The citizens have no ” equal rights ” by rule of law from the Popes morality .

  3. But don’t try to jail or fine ANTIFA or BLM domestic terrorists.

    DOX him! Then send the information to the BLM and ANTIFA.

    • Trump would have sent in the military,im sure , to restore law and order BUT the lawyers have told him he cant The lawyers have told the governors they can fail to restore law and order and allow rioters to vandalize and murder .The lawyers rule .You do not have a constitutional democracy anymore and have NOT,no one does ,ever since they disposed of COMMON LAW. Its all been a fraud ever since and the lawyers under the Pipe have ruled really Thats why wvery president HAS to go to the Vatican after being elected .HAS TO GO.

  4. Yet another Jewish a-hole named Dov Fox claiming to be a US constitution expert.

    Mr Jew’s home planet of Israel has no constitution, meaning that dismantling the US constitution and lying is what Dov Fox is an expert at doing.

    • Israel is a creation by England because the Palestinians supported Hitler and lost the war. England occupied it and created Israel.Its a lot more to it than you read in the papers or have heard on msm all your life

      • even more confusing than you think. Hitlers mother worked for the rothschilds. The rothschilds set up a deal with british aerospace to furnish the license to build the Jet engines for the Soviet’s mig 15’s. they were british jet engines in those Soviet fighters. Mao was funded by the Rothschild’s from the begining. Controlled Mao till the end. Mao was an owned man.
        Those Rothschilds are creepy. The German army drove ford trucks. using esso gas.

  5. Theyre all so naive That supreme court judge Antonio Scalini who died at that ” ranch ” already overturned religious freedom as a way of avoiding compliance to totalitarianism / fascism disguised as caring and sharing papa bear way back when he wax stoll in diapers. Course they kerp everyone ignorant so when they find out anything they think they’ve made a new discovery Like the English ” finding ” Africa .Oh its ours now cause we found it .Funny, in the law finders keepers is nt legal.Infact its called theft and killing original owners is called mass murder ,not philanthropy .

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