Legal battles over the Biden administration’s two vaccine rules are intesifying, with a flurry of Supreme Court briefings ahead of hearings that test the powers of the federal government to make decisions amid the pandemic.
The administration last week urged the justices to let its rule for employers remain in effect while litigation against the measure proceeds at a federal appeals court. A group of Republican-led states separately told the Supreme Court that the health worker mandate—currently blocked in half the U.S.—shouldn’t resume nationwide while several lawsuits unfold.
The cases challenge the power of federal agencies to take steps to protect workers and patients in the face of a pandemic that’s killed more than 820,000 Americans.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s emergency rule requires employers with 100 or more workers to mandate that their employees vaccinate or get tested regularly. The other rule requires vaccinations for employees at places participating in the Medicare and Medicaid health-care programs. The high court will consider both vaccine measures during a special session on Friday.
The court previously granted requests for divided arguments in each case. That will allow lawyers representing a coalition of states and a group of business organizations to advocate for halting the OSHA rule, and attorneys for the Louisiana-led alliance of states and the Missouri-led states to argue against letting the health-care vaccine mandate take...
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