Supreme Court Casts Doubt on Biden’s Workplace Shot Rule (2)

The U.S. Supreme Court cast doubt on the linchpin of President Joe Biden’s push to get more people vaccinated amid a Covid-19 surge, questioning whether the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had authority to require that 80 million workers get shots or regular tests.

In a special argument session Friday, the court’s conservative justices voiced skepticism about the rule, which business groups and Republican-led states say exceeds the workplace-safety agency’s authority.

The pandemic “sounds like the sort of thing that states will be responding to or should be, and that Congress should be responding to or should be, rather ...