Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall stated his office has joined literally dozens of other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to BLOCK President Biden’s “Vaccine Mandate” on private employers.  The move comes in response to the re-instatement of the private employer mandate by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday night.

The mandate, which would affect an estimated 80 million American workers, was set to take effect January 4th, but had been put on hold, before Friday night’s decision by the Sixth Circuit.  The states are asking that the Supreme Court place it on hold again, until the justices can settle the dispute.  Alabama, through AG Steve Marshall’s office, and Gov. Kay Ivey, is also fighting Biden’s mandates on two other fronts, the mandate for health care workers and the one for federal contractors.

Back in November, a federal judge in Louisiana granted the request for a preliminary injunction filed by Marshall and attorneys general from 13 other states, effectively blocking implementation of the health care worker mandate.  The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals left the injunction in place.  The Department of Justice has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to let the mandate take effect.

On December 7th, a federal judge in Georgia blocked the vaccine mandate for federal contractors in a case brought by Marshall and AG’s from six other states.  

Over the weekend, the U.S 11th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the DOJ’s request for the mandate to take effect pending appeal, keeping the mandate blocked in Alabama and other states that filed the lawsuit.

We’ll continue to follow this story as it develops.

(AL.COM/www.al.com)