department of justice veteran and acting solicitor general during the obama administration who argued dozens of cases before the u.s. supreme court. always great to see you. so the administration sees this as critical. they predict that the mandate would push 22 million people to get vaccinated, could prevent a quarter million hospitalizations. the court has repeatedly upheld state vaccine mandates. is this different? it is not. ron klain the white house chief of staff is absolutely right in saying the administration shouldn t back down in the face of this supreme court hearing next week. absolutely. this is after all a supreme court, the john roberts court that traditionally defers to the president when national security or public safety is being invoked and most poignantly for me i challenged president trump s banning of muslims the so-called muslim ban and the supreme court 5-4 disagreed saying they had to defer to the president because the president said public safety required th
always great to see you. so the administration sees this as critical. they predict that the mandate would push 22 million people to get vaccinated, could prevent a quarter million hospitalizations. the court has repeatedly upheld state vaccine mandates. is this different? no, it s not. ron klain the white house chief of staff is absolutely right in saying the administration shouldn t back down in the face of this supreme court hearing next week. absolutely. this is after all a supreme court, the john roberts court that traditionally defers to the president when national security or public safety is being invoked and most poignantly for me i challenged president trump s banning of muslims the so-called muslim ban and the supreme court 5-4 disagreed saying they had to defer to the president because the president said public safety required this ban. if you can ban muslims in the
filing lawsuits. it s kind of like, you know, paul von hindenburg going on a national blimp tour. it s a good thing you re not a republican governor, neal, because we wouldn t have you on the show, you d have your head hidden in the sand. the second case relates to healthcare workers and you mentioned the republican governors, it has to do with the requirement that healthcare workers at hospitals that receive federal money be vaccinated against the coronavirus. there s, you know, there s been objections to all that but the thing i really want to get to here is, you just pointed out, the lower courts, stacked with conservative justices, many people would say, u.s. supreme court also stacked with conservative justices. the new york times says this. the supreme court has repeatedly upheld state vaccine mandates in a variety of settings against constitutional challenges but the new cases are different because they primarily present the question of whether congress has authorized the ex
hidden in the sand. the second case relates to healthcare workers and you mentioned the republican governors, it has to do with the requirement that healthcare workers at hospitals that receive federal money be vaccinated against the coronavirus. there s, you know, there s been objections to all that but the thing i really want to get to here is, you just pointed out, the lower courts, stacked with conservative justices, many people would say, u.s. supreme court also stacked with conservative justices. the new york times says this. the supreme court has repeatedly upheld state vaccine mandates in a variety of settings against constitutional challenges but the new cases are different because they primarily present the question of whether congress has authorized the executive branch to institute the requirements. the answer will mostly turn on the language of the relevant statutes, but there is reason to think that the court s six-justice conservative majority will be skeptical of broa
In the beginning of last week, the courts were busy hearing challenges to various COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Here’s what we know: preliminary injunctions have been granted to halt.