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.
The unvaccinated are 5 times more likely to be hospitalized when infected.
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 Supreme Court will ultimately decide how convincing that disguise is.
I regret to inform you that Joe Biden has made another COVID speech.
Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum on the future of COVID-19, the politicization of science, the failure of mandates, and how to talk with anti-vaxxers.
Vaccination and prior infection induce a strong second line of immunological defense, finds South African study.
As the NFL goes, so goes the nation?
Also vaccine boosters reduce risk of symptomatic infection by nearly 60 percent
It's another case of bureaucratic incompetence as the omicron wave surges.
"Any time you have government dogma saying they are science, or government bureaucrats who claim that 'this is the one and perfect truth'…we should run headlong away."
As omicron surges, the president urges everyone to get vaccinated and boosted.
When we decide to stop paying attention to it, say two authors in the health care journal BMJ.
The argument hinges largely on what makes an emergency standard "necessary."
The White House COVID-19 advisor and his ilk admit they will never let some mitigation measures expire.
On Monday, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that the city would be reimposing a mask mandate for all indoor public spaces in the District of Columbia.
The question of whether to stay the BIden Administration rule requiring large employers to mandate vaccinations or testing is now before the Supreme Court.
George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin debates Libertarian Party activist Angela McArdle
George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin debates Libertarian Party activist Angela McArdle
The Supreme Court has asked for responses to the federal government's stay request.
Plus: Julian Assange faces extradition, the GOP is paying Donald Trump's legal expenses, and more...
The Biden Administration is seeking to stay lower court injunctions against the mandate.
What the major professional sports leagues decide to do in the next few days will play a significant role in how Americans view the next stage of the pandemic.
Are the justices exercising the passive virtues?
The district court's justification for a nationwide injunction was decidedly lacking.
A majority of judges on the court did not vote in favor of the petitions for initial hearing en banc, so the challenge will be heard by a three-judge panel
Bureaucratic foot-dragging is costing lives.
15 out of 16 adult New Yorkers have gotten the jab, but that's not enough to keep government from fining businesses and excluding kids.
The omicron COVID-19 variant is likely to sweep through the country in the next month or so.
Los Angeles Unified School District's 34,000 unvaccinated teens should not go back to virtual learning.
"Public health [officials] don't get to people what to wear; that's just not their job," Polis told a Colorado public radio station.
The nation's capital has perhaps the least intrusive pandemic policies of any big, blue American city.
Now that a federal appeals court has weighed in, the CMS mandate may reach One First Street.
Plus: Getting hitched in the metaverse, unemployment claims fall to their lowest level in decades, and more...
Two federal district courts have now ruled against the mandate for federal contractors.
Pfizer/BioNTech reports that a third shot significantly neutralizes the emerging variant.
Requiring kids as young as 5 to either get vaccinated or stay home is not as smart or as necessary as de Blasio claims.
Plus: A reminder to Bill de Blasio of what "incentive" really means
The mayor also said that children aged 5–11 will have to be vaccinated in order to go to restaurants or engage in "high-risk" extracurricular activities.
Plus: Texas' social media censorship law is blocked by a federal judge on First Amendment grounds, federal lawmakers avoid a government shutdown, and more...
Plus: SCOTUS hears oral arguments in landmark abortion case, supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages are holding back economic growth, and more...
Two district courts have granted injunctions against the rule requiring vaccines for workers at Medicare and Medicaid providers, one nationwide.
Plus: Left-wing Arizona State students want Kyle Rittenhouse preventatively expelled, Senegalese water sellers protest the country's plastic ban, and more...
Vaccine makers are already targeting the omicron variant.
Plus: Los Angeles will start fining businesses that don't enforce the city's vaccine passport system, Disney yanks a China-critical Simpsons episode, and more...
Just how infectious and dangerous the new variant could be is not known at this time.
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