A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed a nationwide ban on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for some 17 million health care workers. The emergency rule will take effect in 26 states due to the ruling from a three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Two federal judges last month blocked the mandate. The first ruling applied to just 10 states; the second expanded the preliminary injunction across the nation. But the appeals court said it found “little justification” for the second move in the opinion issued by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump nominee, on Nov. 30. Doughty’s order lacked a “constitutional uniformity principle” seen in previous cases like Texas v. United States or concerns outlined in that case and others “that patchwork rulings would undermine an injunction limited to certain jurisdictions,” they said in a 6-page opinion. The panel that put forth the ruling consisted of Judges …
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