This evening, the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal by former President Donald Trump seeking to enjoin the Congressional January 6th commission from reviewing communications made by the former President while in office in the lead up to the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. Former President Trump had sought to assert executive privilege over these communications to shield them from review by the commission, but the court of appeals denied this request. The decision split 8-1, with only Justice Clarence Thomas indicating that he would have granted the application for a stay.
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>WASHINGTON (AP) β The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job.
>At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S.
>The courtβs orders Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases was a mixed bag for the administrationβs efforts to boost the vaccination rate among Americans.
>The courtβs conservative majority concluded the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose the Occupational Safety and Health Administrationβs vaccine-or-test rule on U.S. businesses with at least 100 employees. More than 80 million people would have been affected.
>βOSHA has never before imposed such a mandate. Nor has Congress. Indeed, although Congress has enacted significant legislation addressing the COVIDβ19 pandemic, it has declined to enact any measure similar to what OSHA has promulgated here,β the conservatives wrote in an unsigned opinion.
>In dissent, the courtβs three liberals argued that it was the court that was overreaching by substituting its judgments for health experts. βActing outside of its competence and without legal basis, the Court displaces the judgments of the Government officials given the responsibility to respond to workplace health emergencies,β Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a joint dissent.
>The vaccine mandate that the court will allow to be enforced nationwide covers virtually all health care workers in the country.
