Somebody Finally Stood Up to RFK Jr.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/somebody-finally-stood-up-to-rfk-jr-hhs-vaccines-acip

WELL, WELL, WELL. The brainworm may finally have turned.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent the past year systematically dismantling federal support for vaccines. From his perch atop the Department of Health and Human Services, he has canceled funding for vaccine research, published misinformation about supposed vaccine dangers, forced out or fired respected scientists who might resist his agenda, and withdrawn federal recommendations for a half dozen childhood vaccines.

Until recently, Kennedy had run into little resistance. Donald Trump, who gave Kennedy all this power, has lauded Kennedy and amplified his attacks on vaccines. Bill Cassidy, the high-profile Senate Republican and Louisiana physician has—despite some angry statements—refused to use his chairmanship of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to demand changes or even explanations for Kennedy’s actions.

But this week Kennedy suffered a major setback. And it came at the hands of the judiciary.

On Monday, a federal judge in Boston blocked several of Kennedy’s most consequential policy changes, arguing that he had violated legal rules for how the HHS secretary is supposed to make key decisions. The 45-page ruling was a big win for the plaintiffs—a group of medical organizations and affected individuals led by the American Academy of Pediatrics—who have been protesting Kennedy’s actions from the get-go.

“There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made—a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements,” Judge Brian Murphy wrote in his opinion. “Unfortunately, the Government has disregarded those methods and thereby undermined the integrity of its actions.”

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[snowybirdie]

1. Very appropriate

That this ruling comes from a Massachusetts Court!

[GreatGazoo]

2. This judge has been overturned twice

on similar rulings, Judge Brian Murphy

This latest decision is also being appealed.

[SergeStorms]

3. ..."undermined the integrity of its actions."

Anyone remotely associated with tRump and his maladministration had no integrity to begin with.

They're all liars, cheaters, opportunists, blind loyalists and right-wing chicken hawks, the absolute dregs of humanity. It's taken this long for someone to tell worm-brain Kennedy he's a freaking nutcase? Why?