Tue Oct 4, 2022 – 5:00 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge brought by 10 predominantly Republican-led states against the Biden administration’s COVID jab mandate affecting healthcare workers.
Imposed by the U.S. President Joe Biden in November 2021, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate impacts the roughly 10 million healthcare workers throughout the United States who are employed by facilities that receive Medicaid and Medicare funding.
Though the Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s separate COVID jab mandate for large employers in a 6-3 decision in January, it allowed the healthcare worker mandate to take effect in a separate 5-4 ruling.
On Monday, the Court declined to hear an appeal by 10 states led by Missouri, which contended that the requirement has been “devastating small, rural, and community-based healthcare facilities and systems throughout the states” as employees quit or are fired over vaccine refusal, USA TODAY reported.
The Court disagreed with the states in an the unsigned October 3 decision, arguing that the jab mandate “falls
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