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NEW ORLEANS (LifeSiteNews) — A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked enforcement of the Biden administration’s COVID jab mandate for federal employees, rolling back a previous decision by the same court that initially upheld the requirement. The decision comes as the Biden administration stated earlier this year that it’s planning to finally let the ongoing COVID-19 national state of emergency expire in May.
A majority of the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued their preliminary injunction in an en banc ruling March 23, affirming a previous January 2022 decision by a Texas judge to block the requirement, the Daily Wire reported.
The Thursday ruling reversed an April decision by a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit to uphold the rule.
The decision means the administration can’t enforce its mandate that the 1.8 million Americans employed by the federal government get the experimental COVID-19 shots.
In the 89-page ruling, in which the court sided with groups including a chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees and the grassroots nonprofit Feds for Medical Freedom, the judges emphasized that the decision
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