Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of Biden’s Vaccine Rules for Businesses

Conservative Supreme Court justices on Friday appeared skeptical that the Biden administration has legal authority to impose a broad coronavirus vaccination-or-testing requirement on large employers, casting doubt on President Biden’s most ambitious plan to fight the pandemic.

But there was a different reaction to the administration’s vaccine mandate for healthcare personnel at facilities that receive federal Medicaid and Medicare funds. Some of the justices who expressed doubt about the general workplace requirements seemed more open to the idea that federal officials could require those workers to get vaccinated for the coronavirus.

The answer to both could come quickly — the court is considering emergency petitions either to allow the regulations to go into effect or to stop them, and both sides asked the court to act soon.

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