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Texas judge blocks Biden's vax mandate for federal employees
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A judge in Texas has blocked President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for federal employees, dealing another blow to the White House's anti-Covid efforts.
Houston: A judge in Texas has blocked President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for federal employees, dealing another blow to the White House's anti-Covid efforts.
The US Department of Justice immediately filed an appeal and case could be heard by the Supreme Court, reports Xinhua news agency.
On Friday, Judge Jeffrey Brown, appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by former President Donald Trump, issued a nationwide injunction ruling that the mandate exceeded Biden's authority.
The case is about "whether the President can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment", Brown wrote in his opinion.
"As the court has already noted, Congress appears to have limited the President's authority in this field to workplace conduct," Brown wrote.
"For its part, this court will say only this: however extensive that power is, the federal-worker mandate exceeds it."
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked Biden's mandate that employees at businesses with 100 or more workers get vaccinated or regularly tested, while upholding the measure for healthcare workers. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday that 98 per cent of federal workers were already vaccinated.
