A US federal appeals court Saturday halted a vaccine mandate by President Joe Biden's administration that is intended to push millions of workers at businesses with more than 100 employees into getting Covid-19 shots.
The New Orleans-based US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said that because petitioners "give cause to believe there are grave statutory and constitutional issues with the Mandate, the Mandate is hereby STAYED pending further action by this court."
Petitioners include five strongly Republican US states -- Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Utah and Mississippi -- as well as several private companies and religious groups. "Emergency hearings will take place soon," he said. "We will have our day in court to strike down Biden’s unconstitutional abuse of authority."At issue here is the constitutionality of a US president issuing such a sweeping nationwide mandate.
"The fight is not over," Paxton tweeted earlier, "and I will never stop resisting this Admin’s unconstitutional overreach!"Around 58 percent of the total US population was fully vaccinated as of early November, up from half in August as mandates began to be announced.
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