Reducing jail time - Vaccine mandate legality - Lithuania-Taiwan pact

President Joe Biden announced a series of vaccine policies in November. Employers with at least 100 employees were required to stand up vaccine-or-testing programs or face penalties of nearly $14,000 per violation. That requirement alone is estimated to affect two-thirds of the nation's private workforce, or more than 80 million Americans.
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Chief Justice John Roberts said that the federal government appeared to be trying to require vaccines or other Covid-19 policies for much of the nation rather than for limited populations. That, Roberts suggested, should probably be a decision for Congress rather than federal agencies. Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch noted it is states that usually set public health requirements.
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The Supreme Court also heard a challenge to the administration’s vaccine mandate for health workers who are employed at facilities that accept federal funding. In that case, several of the court's conservatives raised questions that seemed to support the government's position.