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The Supreme Court has handed President Biden loss after loss in a sequence of tense authorized battles. His most up-to-date defeat — a COVID-19 vaccination mandate that will have an effect on a sweeping variety of employers — would be the most painful but for the administration.
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked enforcement of the Occupational Security and Well being Administration's (OSHA) vaccination mandate for companies with 100 or extra staff. The OSHA mandate was a signature COVID-19 coverage Biden had been pushing for months regardless of protests from conservatives.
SUPREME COURT HANDS BIDEN COVID VAX MANDATE DEFEAT, SPARKING FURY FROM LIBERALS
The court docket got here inside one vote of sweeping the mandate fully, however conservative Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh sided with their liberal colleagues and allowed the health care worker mandate to go into effect.
President Biden delivers remarks on his administration's coronavirus surge response within the South Court Auditorium on the White Home in Washington Jan. 13, 2022. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photograph)
However the failure to safe his usually touted employer vaccine mandate was solely the newest defeat Biden has suffered on the highest court docket.
The Supreme Court voted in a 6-3 ruling to overturn Biden's eviction moratorium in August 2021, with the court docket's three liberal-leaning justices dissenting.
The Biden administration beforehand admitted that it lacked the authorized authority to increase the federal moratorium after it expired in July 2021. The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC), nevertheless, issued a brand new moratorium that was set to run out in October.
White Home press secretary Jen Psaki stated in August that Biden would have "strongly supported" a choice by the CDC to additional prolong its eviction moratorium however famous that the Supreme Court declared in June that the CDC couldn't grant such an extension with out congressional approval. The White Home stated Biden’s thought for a brand new, 30-day eviction moratorium specializing in counties with excessive an infection charges was additionally shot down by the CDC.
This artist sketch depicts Mississippi Solicitor Basic Scott Stewart standing whereas chatting with the Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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In the identical month, the Supreme Court dominated that the Biden administration's try to do away with the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" coverage violated federal regulation.
Established by the Trump administration in January 2019, the "Remain in Mexico" coverage, or Migrant Safety Protocols (MPP), returned migrants to Mexico to await asylum hearings as a substitute of preserving them in the US. The Trump administration introduced the coverage on the time as an necessary a part of its efforts to finish "catch-and-release" and stem the movement of unlawful immigration. Critics of the coverage declare the coverage was merciless and put migrants vulnerable to violence and exploitation in Mexico.
Biden campaigned in opposition to the MPP and tried to do away with it following his inauguration, however his makes an attempt had been blocked by federal appeals courts after Texas and Missouri sued.
Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas speaks throughout a information convention at The Nationwide Press Membership in Washington Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photograph/Jose Luis Magana)
The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court in December if it was required to proceed the Trump-era coverage. Within the meantime, the administration is planning to restart the Trump-era coverage after its losses within the decrease courts.
Daily Post's Houston Keene, Jon Brown and The Related Press contributed to this report.
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