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The Supreme Court has handed President Biden loss after loss in a series of tense legal battles. His most recent defeat — a COVID-19 vaccination mandate that would affect a sweeping number of employers — may be the most painful yet for the administration.
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) vaccination mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees. The OSHA mandate was a signature COVID-19 policy Biden had been pushing for months despite protests from conservatives.
SUPREME COURT HANDS BIDEN COVID VAX MANDATE DEFEAT, SPARKING FURY FROM LIBERALS
The court came within one vote of sweeping the mandate completely, but conservative Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh sided with their liberal colleagues and allowed the health care worker mandate to go into effect.
President Biden delivers remarks on his administration’s coronavirus surge response in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington Jan. 13, 2022. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo)
But the failure to secure his often touted employer vaccine mandate was only the latest defeat Biden has suffered at the highest court.
The Supreme Court voted in a 6-3 ruling to overturn Biden’s eviction moratorium in August 2021, with the court’s three liberal-leaning justices dissenting.
The Biden administration previously admitted that it lacked the legal authority to extend the federal moratorium after it expired in July 2021. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), however, issued a new moratorium that was set to expire in October.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in August that Biden would have “strongly supported” a decision by the CDC to further extend its eviction moratorium but noted that the Supreme Court declared in June that the CDC could not grant such an extension without congressional approval. The White House said Biden’s idea…
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