In the Case That Blocked OSHA's Vaccine Mandate, the Justices Disagreed About When COVID-19 Counts As a Workplace Hazard
The crux of the argument is the distinction "between occupational risk and risk more generally."
The crux of the argument is the distinction "between occupational risk and risk more generally."
The New York Times and The Washington Post shamed the recipient of a pig heart transplant for committing a crime 35 years ago.
Assorted observations on yesterday's opinions, what they mean, and what comes next.
Many Americans are fleeing restrictive jurisdictions and moving to places that respect their liberty.
Gaetz has introduced a bill nullifying D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's order requiring people to be vaccinated to visit bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
Separately, the court upheld Biden's mandate that health care workers must be vaccinated to work at medical facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding.
I think both rulings are correct, though not always for the reasons given by the Court.
By divided votes, the justices entered stayed t the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard and stayed the lower court injunctions against the mandate that Medicare and Medicaid service providers require their employees to get vaccinated.
Some epidemiologists estimate that the actual number of new infections peaked last week.
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Omicron patients were much less likely to have severe symptoms.
"We need to break up the duopoly, and the mechanical way to break up the duopoly is by shifting to open primaries and ranked choice votings so that every perspective has a shot."
Defenders of the CDC eviction moratorium predicted a "tsunami" of evictions would happen if the policy were rescinded. That hasn't happened.
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Does it matter that the year Congress enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act was as proximate to the Spanish Flu as to today?
The plan will rely on giant tax hikes on businesses and Californians.
The justice's reference to a national "police power" raised some eyebrows.
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"Governments realize that they are in an existential battle over who controls information."
Children forced to Zoom into school ended up with suboptimal immune systems—the opposite of herd immunity.
The caliber of questioning by the justices was not up to the usual standards, but the justices seemed to understand the two rules at issue present different questions.
The president can't fix a problem he doesn't understand.
In my view, the Court should uphold the CMS health care worker vaccination requirement, but rule against the overreaching OSHA rule imposed on employers with 100 or more workers.
Most of the justices appear to be skeptical of the argument that the agency has the power it is asserting.
"We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators," said the justice, wrongly.
Even on campuses where the student body is 99 percent vaccinated, college administrators are bending to COVID-19 hysteria.
The bumbling TSA and performative mask requirements are ineffective air-travel hassles.
According to a recent poll, only 22 percent of people believe that the current state of the economy is "good" or "excellent."
The unvaccinated are 5 times more likely to be hospitalized when infected.
Phony outrage is used to deflect from bad policy decisions.
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Though the American economy still looks bleak, there are silver linings.
The panel rejects the argument that the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act allows the federal government to require vaccination for nearly one-fifth of the American workforce.
The CDC director's explanation of her agency's confusing advice about home COVID-19 testing is hard to understand.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide how convincing that disguise is.
I regret to inform you that Joe Biden has made another COVID speech.
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Based on the experience in South Africa, the Biden administration's top medical adviser says "this thing will peak after a period of a few weeks and turn around."
A new study of 915 childhood COVID-19 hospitalizations found that most involved underlying conditions.
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Alarmed by unilateral COVID-19 restrictions, states are imposing new limits on executive authority.
The pandemic has served as a nice reminder of the merits of federalism, where states are the laboratories of democracy that can try regulatory approaches that conform to local attitudes and conditions.
Suffice it to say, the pandemic did not lead to great childhood independence policies.