Supreme Court blocks Biden COVID-19 vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers
, which came days after the justices heard arguments in the emergency appeal, marked the second time the nation's highest court had unwound a key pandemic policy of the Biden administration, once again concluding that federal officials had exceeded the power given to them by Congress. The, ruling that it, too, amounted to government overreach.
"Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly," the court wrote."Requiring the vaccination of 84 million Americans, selected simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees, certainly falls in the latter category.
"The challenges posed by a global pandemic do not allow a federal agency to exercise power that Congress has not conferred upon it," the court wrote in the separate opinion."At the same time, such unprecedented circumstances provide no grounds for limiting the exercise of authorities the agency has long been recognized to have."Four of the court's conservative justices dissented.
"These cases are not about the efficacy or importance of COVID-19 vaccines," Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote."They are only about whether has the statutory authority to force healthcare workers, by coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not want and cannot undo."Biden announced policies in November that cover employers with more than 100 workers, health sites and federal contractors.
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