Eugenics Revived: Red States, Civil Libertarians Urge SCOTUS to Fix Precedent Behind COVID Mandates
Courts have been botching 1905 precedent upholding mandate for vaccine that actually stops transmission since Buck v. Bell, which upheld forced sterilization of “imbeciles,” and especially in COVID era, SCOTUS hears. Whenever COVID-19 vaccine mandates were legally challenged, public entities were likely to invoke a 1905 Supreme Court precedent upholding a $5 fine on a …