Supreme Court Denies Challenge to New Mexico’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington on April 23, 2021. Seated from left: Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Standing from left: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Erin Schaff/Pool/Getty Images

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a legal challenge to block New Mexico’s vaccine mandate for health care workers, prisons, and nursing homes, as well as other settings.

The nation’s high court didn’t offer a comment (pdf) on why it denied issuing an injunction against the order, the latest time the Supreme Court rejected attempts to block states’ vaccination mandates. Previously, the Supreme Court denied challenges against mandates in New York state and Maine, respectively.