The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. November 30, 2021 Federal Judge Blocks Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers in 10 States ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A federal court in Missouri has temporarily blocked President Biden's vaccine mandate for health care workers in 10 states. District Judge Matthew Schelp - a Trump appointee - ruled that legal challenges to the mandate are likely to succeed, because Congress has not granted the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the power to enforce a vaccine mandate. .