Fri Dec 17, 2021 – 1:49 pm ESTFri Dec 17, 2021 – 1:56 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to revive President Joe Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers and reverse lower court orders blocking the rule in around half of the country.
The Biden Justice Department filed two emergency petitions Thursday evening asking the high court to lift injunctions against the mandate in 24 states while challenges brought by two groups of Republican-led states play out in court.
Biden’s mandate for healthcare workers, issued last month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), requires more than 17 million workers to get their first shot by December 6 and to be fully jabbed by January 4. Healthcare facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs risk losing federal funding if they don’t enforce the policy.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly sided in favor of vaccine requirements. Earlier this week, the justices refused to block a mandate for healthcare workers in New York that precludes religious exemptions, after declining to strike down a similar policy in Maine last month.
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and
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