Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday denied a request from a group of New York City teachers to block the city’s vaccine mandate for public school employees. Sotomayor did not refer the request to the other Supreme Court justices, or comment on her action, likely signaling they agreed with her decision. …

Story at-a-glance: All proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates were rejected by state legislatures. The only COVID-19 vaccine mandates enacted so far were created by state governors, state or local officials or by private employers. 2021 has been a most extraordinary year, and the filing and passage of state-based vaccine legislation in …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Poll: Nearly Three-Quarters of American Voters Oppose $3.5 Trillion Biden Budget (Austin, TX—October 4, 2021) Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group—one of America’s most accurate pollsters in 2016, 2018 and 2020—is releasing the results of a new national survey. Results were from …

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Microsoft and LinkedIn leadership on Thursday questioning why LinkedIn censored the profiles of U.S. journalists from the company’s China-based platform this week, according to a letter obtained by Axios. Driving the news: LinkedIn — which is owned by Microsoft — notified several …