coney-barrett rejects students' attempts to block vaccine mandate

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https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-cou...udents-bid-to-block-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/

the 'case' by 8 students got tossed out of other courts, including the 7th circuit where 3 trump-appointed judges rejected it, efore making its way up to the high court, where it got soundly rejected for the same reasons:

U.S. Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook, appointed by Ronald Reagan to the Seventh Circuit, noted that there cannot be a constitutional problem with state-enforced vaccine mandates, which have been permissible since the time of smallpox.

“To the contrary, vaccination requirements, like other public health measures, have been common in this nation,” Easterbrook wrote.

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The students’ attorney James Bopp Jr.—a Republican power broker behind the landmark Supreme Court precedent Citizens United, which paved the way for the rise of super PACs in political financing—promptly filed an emergency application for an injunction on Aug. 6. Barrett put the kibosh on that request on Thursday.