This is a rush transcript of “Special Report with Bret Baier” on December 22, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
BAIER: Breaking tonight, just in the past few minutes, the U.S. Supreme Court just announced it will hear oral arguments in separate appeals over President Biden’s vaccine mandates. This is for large businesses, 100 or more, and for healthcare workers at facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding. Enforcement of those policies have been put on hold pending resolution in the high court.
These separate arguments will be Friday, January 7th, we’re told, one hour for each issue, and we expect rulings on the merits of the president’s mandates relatively quickly. This is a big deal. We knew it was going to end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. Now the court is saying we take these cases, and we will hear them. Oral arguments, January 7th.
Let’s bring in our panel, start there, Juan Williams is a FOX News analyst, Morgan Ortagus, former State Department spokesperson, and syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt. Hugh, this is really where this is all coming to. The Supreme Court was going to have to weigh in because you had a number of courts weighing in with different rulings.
HUGH HEWITT, SYNDICATED RADIO HOST: Yes, Bret. And I’m going to go out on a limb here. I think you have got at least six justices led by Justice Kavanaugh who are very suspicious of administrative agency overreach, and that this will be struck down, the mandate in private employers, at least for certain struck down.
And I think it will be fairly quick. And I don’t think it’s going to be any great dispute among the court. You might even get Justice Kagan to say it’s under something that’s very obscure, the Chevron doctrine, this is just beyond what OSHA was intended to do. If Congress wants to give the president this power, they have to pass a law to do it.
BAIER: Juan, the president was backing it up, saying how important it was. We’ll see what happens with these…
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