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Judge Blocks RFK Jr.’s Appointees to Vaccine Panel

A district judge in Boston said the health secretary violated the law by appointing new members to the committee that made vaccine recommendations.
Judge Blocks RFK Jr.’s Appointees to Vaccine Panel
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends President Donald Trump's State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 24, 2026. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Stacy Robinson
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A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on March 16 that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. illegally appointed 13 new members to an influential vaccine panel beginning last June.

District Judge Brian Murphy also blocked that panel’s guidance memo revising the childhood immunization schedule and declared its previous votes invalid.

Stacy Robinson
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Stacy Robinson is a politics reporter for the Epoch Times, occasionally covering cultural and human interest stories. Based out of Washington, D.C. he can be reached at [email protected]