Members of the public continue to be barred from entering the court building, as they have been since March 2020. The justices, sometimes divided, have rejected several religious-based challenges to state vaccine requirements. Friday’s cases are the first tests of the federal government’s authority to issue its own vaccine mandates. Some legal experts suspect the healthcare worker mandate has a better chance of surviving Supreme Court review because the regulation covers just facilities that decide to accept patients covered by Medicaid and Medicare. “The quicker they can issue the decision the better,” Logsdon said of the Supreme Court.

Source: Egypt Independent January 07, 2022 12:04 UTC