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Mississippi Employers Could Not Require COVID-19 Vaccinations Under New Bill
Neither private nor public Mississippi entities such as could require employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine under a new bill.
Ashton Pittman
January 19, 2021
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Neither private nor public Mississippi entities such as could require employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine under a new bill.
Trump’s Lost Cause creates its own brutal trap for those who will not acknowledge that he lost a standard, legal, legitimate election. Good losers aren’t happy about losing, but because they share a devotion to the community, they concede and move forward instead of burning everything down in a frenzied tantrum.  Â
Today’s vote to impeach President Donald Trump inciting the insurrection last week at the U.S. Capitol made history as the most bipartisan impeachment vote in history.
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith plans to attend President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration despite voting last week to overturn the election results in two key swing states mere hours after a pro-Trump insurrectionist mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Everyone should know that this assault on our nation, this (somewhat) armed insurrection against our nation in which five people, so far, have lost their lives did not happen because of Donald J. Trump alone. It happened because, ultimately, too many conservatives are cowards.
Congress should take immediate action to remove President Donald Trump from office after yesterday’s insurrection at the nation’s Capitol, U.S. House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson, Mississippi’s most powerful congressman, said in a statement this afternoon. House Democrats introduced articles of impeachment today, charging the president with inciting an insurrection.
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, joined five other senators this evening in an unsuccessful attempt to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi’s senior Republican in the Senate, says he will oppose attempts by some in his party to overthrow American democracy and stop the elected incoming presidential administration from taking power.
Sen. Brice Wiggins, a prominent Republican member of the Mississippi Senate from Pascagoula, broke ranks with most members of his party in the state today as he criticized President Donald Trump’s ongoing pardon spree.
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