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One of many anti-vaccine mandate activists holds a sign during a rally outside Phoenix City Council chambers as the city paused implementation of a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the 14,000 city workers, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, in Phoenix. On Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, a federal appeals court panel allowed President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

OSHA cancels business vaccine mandate after Supreme Court loss

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Protesters gather for a rally against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Businesses take divergent paths after Supreme Court nixes part of Biden’s vaccine rule

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This artist sketch depicts lawyer Scott Keller standing to argue on behalf of more than two dozen business groups seeking an immediate order from the Supreme Court to halt a Biden administration order to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation's large employers during the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, is seated at right. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Supreme Court blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate on big businesses

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

DeMarcus Hicks, a recent graduate of nursing school who is working as a contractor with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, gives a person a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, on the first day of a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Federal Way, Wash. The clinic is operated by King County Public Health and other partners with support from FEMA staff and contract workers, who have been traveling across the U.S. to set up temporary community vaccination centers, including in some areas with mobile bus-based clinics, in efforts to increase the availability of COVID-19 vaccinations and booster shots. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

OSHA vaccine mandate takes hold as Supreme Court justices deliberate legality

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court shown Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court is taking up two major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation's vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Supreme Court justices challenge Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on businesses

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returns to his office at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in this file photo. Mr. McConnell and 46 other Senate Republicans signed onto an amicus brief to the Supreme Court opposing the Biden OSHA vaccination mandate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

GOP lawmakers urge SCOTUS to strike down Biden workplace vaccine-or-test order

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A health worker administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. On Dec. 17, OSHA extended the deadline for large businesses to comply with President Biden’s vaccinate-or-test rule after a federal appeals court reinstated it. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

OSHA moves back vax-or-test deadline for private sector to Feb. 9

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

People hold signs as several hundred anti-mandate demonstrators rally outside the Capitol during a special legislative session considering bills targeting COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Nov. 16, 2021, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Democrats’ message shifts as Biden’s hard line on worker vaccines backfires

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this file photo, President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations after touring a Clayco Corporation construction site for a Microsoft data center in Elk Grove Village, Ill., on Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Are vaccine mandates worth the hassle? Economists, lobby groups say voluntary measures work better

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A woman holds a sign as several hundred anti-mandate demonstrators rally outside the Capitol during a special legislative session considering bills targeting COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Tallahassee, Fla. Florida Republicans continued Tuesday to advance legislation to blunt coronavirus vaccine mandates in businesses as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis' push to combat White House virus rules. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

White House pushes lawless vaccine mandates

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations after touring a Clayco Corporation construction site for a Microsoft data center in Elk Grove Village, Ill., Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. The fate of Biden’s vaccine mandate for larger private employers may come down to a lottery that determines which federal circuit court will consider the matter. Conservative groups have filed challenges to the rule in right-leaning courts, while unions that argue the rule doesn’t go far enough have done so in left-leaning courts. The multiple cases are expected to be consolidated, and it will be up to a random drawing — expected on Tuesday, Nov. 16 — to determine where that will be. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

OSHA has ‘suspended activities’ related to Biden’s vaccine mandate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations after touring a Clayco Corporation construction site for a Microsoft data center in Elk Grove Village, Ill., Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Vaccine mandate challenges to be consolidated at 6th Circuit Court

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

The courtroom in the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, New Orleans, La., is shown in this 2014 photo. Photo credit: Carol M. Highsmith. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. [https://www.loc.gov/item/2014649901/]

Court rips Biden’s broad vaccine mandate: ‘sledgehammer’ not a ‘scalpel’

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 14, 2021, file photo, a syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa. Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine. The federal government on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 announced new vaccine requirements for workers at companies with more than 100 employees as well as workers at health care facilities that treat Medicare and Medicaid patients.. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Informers key in enforcing Biden vaccine mandate

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

Nevada's Don Jackson (6) celebrates after scoring against Washington State during the first half of an NCAA college football game Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, in Reno, Nev. (AP Photo/Kevin Clifford)

White House says ruling against vaccine mandate start of a long fight

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Lurie Children's hospital registered nurse Carolyn Ruyle prepares a dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Lurie Children's hospital Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Chicago. Health officials hailed shots for kids ages 5 to 11 as a major breakthrough after more than 18 months of illness, hospitalizations, deaths and disrupted education. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Religious plaintiffs, others, win stay of Biden’s private-employer vaccine mandate

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, photograph, a sign notifies customers that COVID-19 vaccinations are available at a pharmacy in a grocery store in Monument, Colo. Companies with at least 100 workers will be required to give employees paid time off to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and paid sick leave if they have side effects from the shots. That's according to a Biden administration official who spoke Monday, Nov. 1, about pending vaccine-mandate rules from OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) **FILE**

Religious organizations ask federal courts to block Biden’s vaccine mandate

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this June 17, 2018, photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. The U.S. Justice Department is in talks to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to each child and parent who was separated under a Trump-era practice of splitting families at the border. A person familiar with the talks tells The Associated Press that figure was under consideration but changed, though not dramatically. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because discussions are private. About 5,500 children were split from their parents under the practice. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP) **FILE**

EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s a death trap’: ICE officers file OSHA complaint over illegal immigrant COVID risks

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 14, 2021, file photo, a syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa. Companies with at least 100 workers will be required to give employees paid time off to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and paid sick leave if they have side effects from the shots. That's according to a Biden administration official who spoke Monday, Nov. 1, about pending vaccine-mandate rules from OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Biden vaccine mandate issued for private employers: Jan. 4 deadline for workers to get shots

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, photograph, a sign notifies customers that COVID-19 vaccinations are available at a pharmacy in a grocery store in Monument, Colo. Companies with at least 100 workers will be required to give employees paid time off to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and paid sick leave if they have side effects from the shots. That's according to a Biden administration official who spoke Monday, Nov. 1, about pending vaccine-mandate rules from OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) **FILE**

Sen. Mike Braun launches effort to reject Biden’s OSHA vaccine mandate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times