FILE PHOTO: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem speaks at the North Carolina GOP convention on the day former U.S. President Donald... JONATHAN DRAKE June 29, 2021 09:30pm EDT. Reuters photo.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she plans to sue President Joe Biden over the vaccine requirements the president announced Thursday.
Biden announced policies requiring most federal employees to get COVID-19 vaccinations and pushing large employers to have their workers inoculated or tested weekly. Biden said “patience is wearing thin” regarding people who are not yet vaccinated.
Noem on her personal Twitter called the new rules “a gross example of federal intrusion.” Her official account tweeted at Biden, “see you in court.”
Noem joins several other Republican governors and the Republican National Committee in saying they’ll challenge the rules in court.
“This is not a power that is delegated to the federal government; this is a power for states to decide,” Noem told Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday night. “In South Dakota we’re going to be free, and we’re going to make sure that we don’t overstep our authority. So we will take action. My legal team is already working.”
My legal team is standing by ready to file our lawsuit the minute @joebiden files his unconstitutional rule. This gross example of federal intrusion will not stand.
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) September 9, 2021
Taken together, the policies and speech represented Biden’s most aggressive steps yet to prod Americans resistant to getting shots as the fast-spreading Delta variant sparks a new wave of sickness and death.
“We’ve been patient,” Biden told the tens of millions of Americans who have declined to get coronavirus shots. “But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us.”
(Information from Reuters was used in this report.)
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