Among the named defendants in the lawsuit are NASA and its administrator, Bill Nelson, a former U.S. DeSantis, a Republican, spoke at a news conference at the Florida Air Museum in Lakeland, in a nod to the state’s aerospace contractors. The Supreme Court has turned away legal challenges to vaccine mandates at Indiana University and for health care workers in Maine. Legal experts say the federal government has broad authority to address a public health crisis like the pandemic with measures like vaccine mandates and that such suits have little chance of succeeding. 8 deadline imposed by the Biden administration for federal contractors to get vaccinated. District Court in Tampa, seeks to block a Dec. Ron DeSantis of Florida announced on Thursday that his administration was suing the federal government to challenge the requirement. Calvin Knight/The Ledger, via Associated PressĬalling a rule that federal contractors must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination or submit to weekly testing a “heavy-handed mandate,” Gov.
Ron DeSantis is trying to head off a Dec.