11 States File Lawsuit Against Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Businesses

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the World Leaders' Summit "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" session at the COP26 Climate Conference at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 2, 2021. Steve Reigate/AFP via Getty Images

Attorneys general in 11 states filed a lawsuit Friday against President Joe Biden’s administration in a challenge against a new vaccine mandate for workers and firms with 100 or more employees.

The lawsuit, filed in the Missouri-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, argued that only states have the power to compel vaccinations, not the federal government.