freedoms. let s get your legal questions answered with a cnn legal analyst and former state and federal prosecutor. all right. let s tick through these things. people wonder what can and cannot happen here. can states require residents to get vaccinated against covid-19? this is an easy yes. we know this because the supreme court told us over 100 years ago in a famous case from 1905 called jacobson versus massachusetts where they mandated that all of the residents in that state or commonwealth get vaccinated against smallpox. the supreme court said that s completely fine. the supreme court ruled it s within the police power of a state to enact a vaccination law. there are politics involved in this. what you have to show is a state is a reasonable medical need. there is going to be politics behind this. no state has done this yet. they absolutely can. what about federal
now we require vaccinations. if you want to do that, come join us. if not, you have another option. see you later. there s other jobs out there. neil: is there a difference between a hospital you said it s different given that environment with patients, et cetera versus and average company, not in the health field. not having anything to do with that. there s a difference in the court of public opinion but not under the law. i did some research for you, neil. there s a 1905 supreme court case, jacobson versus massachusetts which gives public entities forget about private first, but public entities can require vaccinations for the benefit of public health. so certainly a private organization, whether it be a hospital, a bar, any type of private company can require this under the law. it s their right. they re not violating any statute, not violating any law
team in line or makes them stop, he can make putin stop. neil: to your point, it s affecting more than us. china depends on beef from us and largely from jbs, which also ships a lot of beef to australia from which they get even more meat. the fact that these issues are coming up again and again, whether they re all linked to russia or not, they re getting to be more common place. today we learned not long ago, the mta was hacked. we re getting word that the steamline authority, the ship short in massachusetts responsible for a lot of those boats that go back and forth between martha s vineyard, hyannis, also hit by that. affected sailings that were going outs today. people paying in cash so the credit system wasn t compromised. this is a couple weeks after the
sandra? sandra: nice to see a bustling new york city behind you there. some are tourists. can you hear it. sandra: we do. aishah, thank you. the question is all of this legal? with us now, law professor jonathan turley from george washington university. so can employers require vaccination? like you heard aishah report, can they demand proof of vaccination? the answer, yes. the constitution is primarily focused on government conduct, private conduct. even for government conduct, there was a case in 1905 called jacobson versus massachusetts. that is a case where a man challenged the requirement to get a small pox vaccine or you d have to pay a $5 fine.