US supreme court hears arguments on federal vaccine mandate for employers – live

Posted by on January 7, 2022 11:31 am
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The Biden administration’s Covid vaccination requirement for businesses with more than 100 workers and healthcare facilities has been challenged
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There’s been a lot of back-and-forth about the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccine – which, reminder, while everybody here is highly educated in law, nobody is an epidemiologist – and Justice Elena Kagan went hard at Ohio solicitor general Ben Flowers.

“You said we understand that 18- to 29-year-olds, even though they’re not going to die or end up with very serious injuries, they can spread. You don’t doubt that, that they can spread to other people who are more vulnerable?” Kagan asked Flowers.

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