Last year, President Biden announced a sweeping COVID vaccine mandate for businesses across the United States employing 100 or more workers. This vaccine mandate came in spite of Biden promising during the 2020 presidential election to not implement vaccine mandates.
The 46th president stated he’d have the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforce the mandate for workers to either vaccinate against COVID or undergo virus testing on a weekly basis.
Immediately, this mandate faced a heap of backlash from the political right, religious groups, and business companies. These parties vowed legal action; Biden’s response to this backlash was daring anti-mandate folks to “have at” their legal challenges against his directive.
On Thursday, everyone who opposed Biden’s sweeping mandates breathed a sigh of relief.
No deal on Biden’s OSHA vaccine mandate
This week, the United States Supreme Court determined OSHA does not have the authority to implement public health policy.
The nation’s high court furthermore decided COVID remains a risk of “universal” nature, not an occupational risk that OSHA would have authority over.
