States Urge Justices to Uphold Block on Health-Care Jab Mandate (2)

The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health-care workers shouldn’t resume across the nation while litigation unfolds, a group of Republican-led states told the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday.

The states are asking the high court to reject the administration’s request to put a hold on two lower court decisions that are blocking the rule in about half the country.

“The Secretary seeks an extraordinary stay to undo that necessary remedy and immediately reimpose the mandate, creating confusion, causing a logistical nightmare, and unleashing the ‘prevalent, tangible, and irremediable’ harm that the injunction forestalls,” state attorneys general said in a brief. ...