Tue Dec 7, 2021 – 6:03 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A federal judge sided with South Carolina’s attorney general and blocked the Biden administration’s COVID-19 jab mandate for federal contractors, stalling the requirement nationwide and marking the third federal injection mandate to be blocked across all 50 states.
U.S. District Judge Stan Baker issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the jab mandate for Americans who work in positions contracted with the federal government, granting a request submitted by South Carolina Republican Attorney General Alan Wilson.
BREAKING: A federal judge has again sided with Attorney General Alan Wilson and today blocked the vaccine requirement for federal contractors. This is the third time courts have agreed with Attorney General Wilson and blocked vaccine mandates imposed by the Biden administration. pic.twitter.com/CkiM5PNWfO
— South Carolina Attorney General’s Office (@SCAttyGenOffice) December 7, 2021
Fortune reported that the federal contractor mandate, intended to to take effect on January 4, would have affected “roughly a quarter of the U.S. workforce,” targeting “companies that do business with the federal government, including Lockheed Martin Corp., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.‘s Google, and General Motors Co.”
The Georgia court’s ruling against the requirement is the latest in a series of strikes
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