Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Rules Hit Republican Judge Blockade

President Joe Biden’s multi-pronged campaign to boost Covid-19 vaccination rates among workers has run into a red wall of Republican-appointed judges, particularly those jurists tapped by the Trump administration.

Twelve of the 14 lower court rulings against Biden’s suite of workplace vaccine rules were handed down by either Republican-appointed district judges or GOP-controlled appellate court panels, according to a Bloomberg Law review of cases. Trump judges were involved in nine of those 12 decisions.

Republican-appointed jurists were responsible for three of the seven rulings supporting Biden vaccine rules, with one decision coming from a Trump judge.

“The judicial responses reflect ...