receive medicare and medicaid funding. after the cases came to the supreme court in december on a an emergency basis, the justices opted to expedite the cases for oral argument on whether the mandates shall remain in place while the challenges proceed in the lower courts. here to break it all down is jonathan turl yrgs, george washingsington university law professor. professor turly, what is the most significant take away? let s start first with the osha ruling involving the businesses. well, ultimately the big ticket mandate, that the one that affected about 80 million workers, and the result was a major loss to the biden administration. this was one of the key pillars of the administration s pandemic policies. but the court made short work over it because they dinot see the authority in this agency to require national mandates.