President Joe Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, Chief Medical Adviser on COVID-19 Dr Anthony Fauci, Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Councilor to the President Jeff Zients and virtual guests, signs an executive order on Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

Appeals Court Reinstates Biden’s Mandate

A US Court if Appeals has reinstated President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal workers, giving the President a court win The Wall Street Journal reports.

The ruling from the 5th United States Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas in January of 2022.

The appeals court voted 2-1 to overturn the injunction and put the mandate from Biden back in place.

The move comes as mandates lift around the country, from masks to vaccines to crowd control.

Biden has said that he has the authority to issue the mandate which has set off a flurry of legal challenges around the country.

However, Biden tried to mandate large employers require vaccination but the Supreme Court overturned that edict, while carving out an exception to force healthcare workers to get vaccinated if their facilities participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

The ruling however still allows federal workers a remedy, the judge wrote, ruled that the federal-employee requirement was an adverse employment action covered by the Civil Service Reform Act and the employees had to take their complaints to the Merit Systems Protection Board instead of the courts.

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