RFK Jr.’s Former Group Appeals Block of New CDC Vaccine Schedule

The judge’s order ‘is a permanent leash on federal vaccine policy,’ an attorney said. ‘It cannot stand.’

A child receives a dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Fairfax County Government Center in Annandale, Va., on Nov. 4, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

An organization founded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appealed a federal judge’s order on March 25 that blocked a new childhood vaccine schedule implemented by the Trump administration with support from the health secretary.

Lawyers representing Children’s Health Defense, the organization, and other proposed intervenors in the litigation appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.