WASHINGTON, Jan 8 — The US Supreme Court appeared to be divided yesterday over President Joe Biden’s Covid vaccination-or-testing mandate for businesses with liberal justices strongly in favour and conservatives expressing skepticism.
Vaccination has become a politically polarizing issue in the United States, where 62 per cent of the population are vaccinated. “An economy-wide mandate would cause permanent worker displacement, rippling through our national economy,” Keller said. Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged there was “pressing urgency to addressing the problem” of the pandemic but joined other conservative justices in questioning whether it should be the federal authorities that respond with mandates.
Republican lawmakers and business owners have argued that mandatory Covid shots are an infringement on individual rights and an abuse of government power. Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth Murrill, arguing against the vaccination mandate for healthcare workers, called it a “bureaucratic power move that is unprecedented.”
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