January 4, 2022 |
Teachers in the federally-funded Head Start program in Wyoming who don’t want to take the COVID-19 injection drug can breathe a little easier. A federal judge in Louisiana ruled that President Joe Biden cannot require the shot.
The ruling is a victory for the 24 states, including Wyoming, that sued the administration. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty wrote that the Biden administration unlawfully bypassed Congress when ordering that workers in Head Start programs be vaccinated by Jan. 31 and that students two years or older be masked when indoors or when in close contact outdoors.
The Biden administration had threatened to cut funding to schools that did not comply. The Louisiana Attorney General said the mandate was an unlawful attempt to impose medical decisions on Americans.
The court’s ruling comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a request to block a California school district’s vaccine mandate for students and will hear arguments on Friday over two other Biden administration efforts to require vaccines.
