Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶411

This Court's recent decision in Biden v. Missouri, 595 U. S. 87 (2022) (per curiam), strongly supports the President's position here. That case involved a challenge to President Biden's COVID–19 vaccine requirement for millions of healthcare workers. The executive action there, too, was undoubtedly major. But the Court upheld the Government's vaccine mandate based on a general statutory authorization for HHS to impose safety requirements for healthcare facilities—notwithstanding the lack of explicit statutory reference to vaccines. Id., at 90–96. In doing so, the Court emphasized that state vaccination requirements were common for healthcare workers and that the Federal Government regularly required healthcare workers to take various safety precautions. Id., at 94–95. Notably, the Court upheld the vaccine mandate even though (as the dissenters pointed out) the Federal Government had not…

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