author genie gerson writes the point of a fundamental constitutional right is it shouldn t be at the people s mercy particularly when the composition of the court has been shifted through political means for this purpose. the spectacle of states braze ly floog in the constitution precedent making illegal actions to make legal after all would effectively communicate the supreme court is not in fact supreme. joining me on set, this is a treat, is our own friend joyce vance, former united states attorney, a professor at the university of alabama law school, and an msnbc contributor. you see her very regularly on this network. ia don t see this all that much. it used to happen. great to have you back, my friend. justice sotomayor commented on this, this week. this idea that the supreme court does move as opinion changes over time. but it needs to be careful about not swaying too fast, not too
honestly, it is almost not hyperbole to say that getting your population vaccinated and safe from communicable diseases is the foundation of modern governance or one of the core functions it serves, despite the pervasiveness of this, across the entire world, we now have cries of tyranny, of the gestapo from pro-covid conservatives. so let s talk about the real nuts and bolts of u.s. law around vaccine requirements and what president biden announced. to do that, i want to bring in genie gerson, who is a professor of law at harvard law school, contributing writer at the new yorker. her recent column explains various roadblocks to the government imposing a national vaccine mandate. you wrote about a national vaccination mandate. we re short of that here. the provision getting the most ire, i think, is the use of osha authority to require businesses to have some policies. talk us through what legal