Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined eleven of his colleagues from other states in suing the Biden administration over requiring healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 – saying the president “abandoned persuasion for brute force” in announcing his order.

Unlike Biden’s mandate requiring that private sector employees be vaccinated, this mandate covering employees of Medicaid- and Medicare-certified providers does not give an option to submit to weekly COVID testing instead of getting the shot.

Alabama joined Louisiana, Montana, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia on Monday of this week in suing the Biden administration to block the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from enacting the mandate, which would require affected healthcare workers to be vaccinated by January 4th of 2022.

The Biden administration announced the policy in September of 2021 

Marshall is also suing the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate governing private employees and federal government contractors, saying “Each of these mandates has distinct and severe legal deficiencies that warrant distinct and severe responses from the states,” adding,  “This is about so much more than vaccines.  It’s about planting a flag to say that ‘enough is enough.’”