SCOTUS Serves up a Brutal Defeat for Joe Biden on Vaccine Mandate for Businesses – Opinion

It was already reported on earlier. It appeared the Supreme Court punted on the lawsuit brought against the Biden administration regarding Joe Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for private businesses with more than 100 employees, this despite the fact that the mandates went into effect this week.

It turns out, we were mistaken. The Supreme Court issued a sharp rebuke today, denying the mandate to private companies but stating that it could keep the mandate in effect for federally funded healthcare facilities for health workers.

BREAKING: A Supreme Court ruling blocks the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine or-test requirement in large workplaces. The court allows a nationwide mandate that vaccines be administered to federally funded workers in health care facilities.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) January 13, 2022

Here’s the vote breakdown:

Breyer, Sotomayor, & Kagan dissent from the decision to block the vax-or-test rule for workplaces of 100 or more employees.

Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, & Barrett dissent from the decision to allow the health care vaccine mandate to take effect nationwide.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) January 13, 2022

You can read the entire opinion about the mandated private workplace vaccination here.
You can read the entire opinion about the federal mandate to fund healthcare facilities by clicking here.