Another Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Struck Down by Court

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President Joe Bidenโ€™s administration did not have the authority to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers and volunteers in a federal childcare program, a U.S. judge has ruled.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) forced Head Start workers, and some volunteers, to get a COVID-19 vaccine starting in early 2022. Head Start provides childcare to children from low-income families.

HHS cited the Head Start Act, which says the health secretary can add โ€œadministrative and financial management standards,โ€ โ€œstandards relating to the condition and location of facilities (including indoor air quality assessment standards, where appropriate),โ€ and โ€œsuch other standards as the secretary finds to be appropriate.โ€

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that the mandate was outside of the power granted by the act. The law โ€œdoes not mention vaccinations,โ€ he and other plaintiffs said in a brief.

U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix agreed.

โ€œThe wisdom of Head Startโ€™s rule is not before the Courtโ€”only its legality. If the people, through Congress, wish to impose a vaccine mandate on Head Start programs, they may do so by passing a law. But an agency can do only what Congress authorizes it to do,โ€ Hendrix, a Trump appointee, said in his ruling.

โ€œRegardless of how well intentioned, HHSโ€™s attempt here to shoehorn the vaccine mandate into statutory language authorizing modification of Head Startโ€™s administrative, financial, and facility-management standards goes too far. Equally fatal to the rule is the agencyโ€™s decision to implement it without the necessary public notice and comment, consultation with stakeholders, and reasonable explanation,โ€ he added.

The ruling strikes down the mandate, which Bidenโ€™s administration had refused to rescind. The mandate had already been struck down in 24 states, per a 2022 ruling by a different judge.

HHS and the U.S. Department of Justice did not respond to requests for comment.

โ€œIโ€™m proud to announce that the Biden Administrationโ€™s attempt to use the Head Start program to mask toddlers and force the vaccine on staff and volunteers has now been permanently defeated,โ€ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican and one of the plaintiffs, said in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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