Federal Contractor Vaccine Order Blocked by Judge in Kentucky

President Joe Biden doesn’t likely have the power to mandate vaccines for federal contractors and their subcontractors, a Kentucky federal court said Tuesday, halting the order issued by the administration for the conservative-led states challenging it.

Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee sued the Biden administration arguing that the mandate for companies that do business with the U.S. government violated the U.S. Constitution.

The president, in all likelihood, can’t use congressionally delegated authority to manage the federal procurement of goods and services to impose vaccines, said U.S. District Court Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove of the Eastern District of Kentucky. He granted ...