Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) on Sunday said his attorney general and officials from other states are looking into how they can “attack” President Biden’s new vaccine mandate in court.
Ricketts, during an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” called the new vaccine requirement that requires private employers with 100 or more employees an “egregious overreach of federal authority.”
“I’ve been talking to my attorney general, he is coordinating with the other attorneys general across the country who share similar views about the overreach,” Ricketts told Chris Wallace during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
“As we see what these rules are we will be able to know exactly how we will be able to challenge them in court. I’m also talking with my colleagues around the country as well the other governors who feel the way I do, and we’ll be working on other strategies,” he added.
Ricketts said going to court would occur once authorities better grasp of the rules being implemented.
“When we get an idea of what these rules exactly will be we’ll know how to be able to attack it in court,” he said.
President Biden announced a new federal vaccine rule on Thursday which requires that private employers with 100 or more employees mandate vaccines or weekly testing.
The new policy, which could affect nearly 80 million workers, will be issued in the coming weeks.
Ricketts, during his interview with Wallace, argued that getting inoculated should be a “personal health care choice.”
“This is not something that the government should mandate, and somebody shouldn’t have to make the choice between keeping their job and getting a jab in the arm. I mean, it’s just wrong,” Ricketts said.