By a 6-3 vote, for many employers, but leaves a similar mandate for health care workers in place.
Attorney General Dave Yost said the ruling protects individual rights and freedom.
Here's Attorney General 's statement on today's US Supreme Court ruling on the vaccine-or-test mandate:鈥淭oday鈥檚 ruling protects our individual rights and states鈥� rights to pursue the solutions that work best for their citizens.鈥�
— Karen Kasler (@karenkasler)
After the arguments last week Yost said it wasn鈥檛 about whether vaccines work or if a mandate is a good idea, but that a mandate must be enacted by Congress, not an agency or the Biden administration.
鈥淥nce you give a bureaucrat the vast power to implement these kinds of mandates through the OSHA law, you'll never close that door. And that, my friends, is what this case is actually all about," Yost said.
The mandate would have applied to more than 80 million people working in businesses with more than 100 employees.
It was Ohio Solicitor General Ben Flowers who argued the case 鈥� he did so remotely, since he had tested positive for COVID.
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