Overview

• The Supreme Court has dismissed several cases challenging the Biden administration's now-rescinded Covid-19 vaccine mandates for federal employees and military service members.
• The court's decision erases the appeals court decisions, preventing them from holding the weight of precedent in the future.
• The vaccine mandates were rescinded earlier this year due to a steep decline in Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations.
• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the only Biden appointee on the Court, dissented from the majority’s decision in two of the cases.
• The Biden administration argued that the changing public health circumstances led to the end of the federal employee mandate.