A federal judge has halted, nationwide, President Joe Biden's September executive order requiring federal contractors to vaccinate their work forces.
The Dec. 7 decision, by Judge Stan Baker in the federal district court in Augusta, Ga, calls into question the legality of the order Biden used to issue the mandate.
The federal contractor mandate had already been stayed on Dec. 3 by a federal district court judge in Lexington, Ky., but only in the states of Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky, which had sued.