Republican lawsuits unlikely to halt US worker vaccine mandates, experts say

The Biden administration is on solid legal ground in imposing Covid-related public health measures, scholars argue

Republican elected officials continue to challenge government mandates aimed at stopping the spread of Covid-19, but legal experts predict the lawsuits and bans on mandates will largely prove fruitless because the law allows for such public safety measures.

But as those legal fights play out America will probably still be riven by a dispute between mostly Democrats on one hand who argue they are trying to curb a deadly virus, and usually Republicans on the other who say the Biden administration is involved in government overreach, often using rhetoric that can veer into the conspiratorial.