It's Friday,

Friday, January 14, 2022.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing,

a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States blocked the Vite

administration's vaccine mandate. It was a very important ruling by the court. It came with a six three vote.

The majority of six represented the six conservative justices on the Supreme Court, the three more

liberal justices quite predictably dissented.

What you were looking at here is a great collision not over vaccines, but over a vaccine mandate.

And the way that mandate was presented, handed down how it was promulgated by the regulatory

state, how it was presented and defended by the Biden administration, and how the federal government must operate within constitutional bounds and

bureaucratic agencies, regulatory agencies, must operate within clear congressional mandates. All of this was very much on the line.

There were actually two issues, two dimensions

in the court's action related to vaccines yesterday.

In the second matter, the court court let stand a certain requirement of vaccination

for medical employees but the big issue was the Biden administration's order

that the Secretary of Labor instruct the Occupational Safety the employers that had more than a hundred employees to mandate vaccination or

weekly testing and furthermore to maintain a roster in which there was a clear

differentiation between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.

I'll explain more why that was a major problem.

But it was very clear that the Supreme Court's conservative majority said

stop to the Biden administration.

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