Plus: California Nightmare: What to Know About Left’s Next Run at Single-Payer Health Care
January 14 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where President Biden suffers a major defeat as the Supreme Court strikes down his COVID-19 vaccine mandate for many private employers. Sarah Parshall Perry and Paul Larkin explain why the high court went the other way on a mandate for health care facilities. Mary Margaret Olohan collects some jubilant reaction. On the podcast, tech policy expert Lora Ries shows how Big Tech censors conservatives and what some platforms are doing about it. Plus: California and the future of government-run health care, and year-ending incidents of good guys with guns. Eighty years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt requires noncitizens from Italy, Germany, and Japan—all World War II enemies—to register with the Justice Department.
The court classifies the COVID-19 virus as not an “occupational hazard,” but a “universal risk” that “is no different from the day-to-day dangers that all face from crime [or] air pollution".
All residents of California—including illegal immigrants—would be eligible to enroll, and medical services would be “free” at the point of service, meaning no premiums or deductibles.
“The justices were right to take this threat to our individual liberties seriously and put an end to this authoritarian mandate," says Heritage Action's Jessica Anderson.
Heritage Foundation's Lora Ries Ries discusses how Big Tech censors conservatives and how platforms such as Gettr and Rumble are putting free speech at the forefront.
After a man shot his son and daughter-in-law during a domestic dispute, armed neighbors held him at gunpoint until police arrived. The couple’s children—home at the time—were uninjured, police said.
