It's the latest legal setback for the White House’s efforts to compel workers to get vaccinated
the Biden Administration’s federal vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors nationwide, in the latest legal setback in the White House’s efforts to compel workers to get vaccinated against coronavirus.... [+]
Moderna coronavirus vaccine at the Cameron Grove Community Center on March 25, 2021, in Bowie, Maryland.U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Georgia R. Stanley Baker issued a preliminary nationwide injunction, saying the court was “unconvinced” that the vaccine mandate was within President Joe Biden’s executive powers, and that contractors could suffer “extreme economic burden” if the order takes effect.
The order was in response to a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia, and a separate motion from Associated Builders and Contractors. The order comes one week after a federal judge in Kentucky temporarily halted the enforcement of the vaccine mandate for federal contractors in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.“It will also have a major impact on the economy at large, as it limits contractors’ and members of the workforce’s ability to perform work on federal contracts,” Baker wrote. “Accordingly, it appears to have vast economic and political significance.
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