January 04, 2022
D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser’s illegal vaccine mandate power grab
No businesses should bar the unvaccinated from entry.
On Dec. 22, 2021, Washington’s Mayor Muriel Bowser announced her plans to issue an extraordinary executive order, demanding that people over 11 years old who are not “fully vaccinated” from COVID-19 be barred from restaurants, bars, gyms and most indoor gatherings.
For reasons known only to the mayor, this “urgent” order will not be formalized three weeks following her Twitter announcement, beginning Jan. 15, 2022. The mayor announced these restrictions knowing she lacked any legal authority to do so, based on transparently false assertions about the effects of COVID-19 vaccinations and without even a semblance of a “public health emergency” to justify this power grab.