The Lexington Herald-Leader reports, “A federal judge in Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction effectively blocking implementation of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal government contractors and subcontractors on Tuesday.

This is an important first step in ending the Biden Administration’s unconstitutional mandate on private businesses. Thank you @DanielCameronAG for being an advocate for liberty in the courts! https://t.co/Pw1BemjM21

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 1, 2021

U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, who serves the Eastern District of Kentucky, issued the opinion and order Tuesday afternoon. It came in response to a challenge from Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who joined many other state attorneys general in challenging the mandate. ‘This is not a case about whether vaccines are effective. They are,’ Van Tatenhove wrote. ‘Nor is this a case about whether the government, at some level, and in some circumstances, can require citizens to obtain vaccines. It can.’

He said that the question before him was a narrow one: whether or not Biden had the authority to impose vaccines on the employees of federal contractors and subcontractors. ‘In all likelihood, the answer to that question is no,’ Van Tatenhove wrote.”

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