“Flexing its judicial muscle as the Supreme Court has not done in generations, the Court’s new conservative majority of six Justices on Thursday blocked the Biden Administration policy that sought to impose nationwide protection of more than 84 million workers from the deadly Covid-19 virus.” So begins Lyle Denniston’s blog post titled “Court sweeps away broadest anti-virus policy.”

“Some Brief Thoughts on Gorsuch’s Opinion in NFIB v. OSHA”: Anita Krishnakumar has this post at the “Election Law Blog.”

“Hospitals Confront the Fallout From Supreme Court Ruling on Vaccine Mandate; They could face more staff shortages, and workers and facilities could feel caught between opposing state and federal policies”: Audra D.S. Burch and Reed Abelson will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Don’t Pack the Court. Allow the Number of Justices to Float. That would strengthen the court’s legitimacy while keeping partisan tensions in check.” Professor Scott S. Boddery and Benjamin R. Pontz have this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Some states move to protect abortion rights in face of challenge at Supreme Court; New Jersey codified the right to an abortion into state law this week”: Meredith Deliso of ABC News has this report.

“The Supreme Court can’t get its story straight on vaccines; The Court is barely even pretending to be engaged in legal reasoning”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Here’s how Biden can fix the Supreme Court’s terrible mistake in the vax or mask case”: Law professor Aaron Tang has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“Gorsuch v. the Administrative State Is Really Heating Up; Three Supreme Court conservatives have signaled that they want to go beyond barring vaccine mandates to erecting sweeping constitutional barriers against federal regulatory activity”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.