"it's just a mandate, mandates are not law".
On the surface this is a correct and perfectly logical statement. But know why I don't like it?
What happens if our corrupt and illegitimate Congress makes it a law? Now we have shot ourselves in the foot by implying we have to follow it because it's law. I don't care if they make a law that says you have to get the jab or face a firing squad, I'm not gonna follow unjust laws.
It kinda reminds me of the line I heard a lot and have even been guilty of saying myself "it's not even FDA approved"... Until it was. Then what? We all had to change our line of thinking. Good logic does not require this kind of tweaking.
Maybe I'm just being pedantic but I wanted to give my two cents. Thoughts on this?
"What happens if our corrupt and illegitimate Congress makes [a mandate] law?"
Congress can never pass an unconstitutional law. A legislative body whether local, state, or federal will pass unconstitutional items of legislation—bills, acts, statutes, ordinances, codes, regulations, mandates, policies, et cetera—and enforce them under false pretense or color of law. Congress would have to commit treason against The United States Constitution openly by overturning all legal precedents or federal case laws of the judiciary branch. Congress must breach the separation of powers and seize jurisdiction of the judiciary branch to establish cause for violating the supreme law of the land.
Any legislative body or unelected de facto bureaucracy—CIA, DOJ, FBI, FDA, CDC, DMV, et cetera—declares open war or treason against The Constitution with unconstitutional items of legislation. For in what section or clause of any law state or federal is giving Congress or any bureaucracy precedence legal, jurisdiction, and cause to violate rights unalienable, civil, constitutional and The Constitution?
"A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. . . [An] act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void" (Marbury v. Madison, 5 US 137, 177).
"An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed" (Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US 425, 442).
"Undoubtedly, the State, when providing by legislation for the protection of the public health, the public morals, or the public safety, is subject to the paramount authority of the Constitution of the United States, and may not violate rights secured or guaranteed by that instrument, or interfere with the execution of the powered confided to the General Government" (Mugler v. Kansas, 123 US 623, 663).