A US federal court of appeal on Saturday suspended the vaccine obligation introduced by Joe Biden for employees of companies with more than 100 people.
The reason ?
She wants to give herself time to consider potential "serious constitutional problems".
The US president's measure requires tens of millions of employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by January 4, under penalty of having to undergo very regular tests.
Announced in mid-September, it was adopted this week by the executive, and was immediately challenged as a matter of urgency in court, in particular by the state of Texas, controlled by Republicans opposed to any vaccine obligation to fight the pandemic.
This is therefore a major setback for Joe Biden, who had just cashed his first major legislative victory with the adoption in Congress on Friday of his infrastructure investment plan.
A substantive examination
In its decision, the federal court of appeals for Texas ruled that the plaintiffs had "given arguments suggesting that there are serious constitutional and procedural problems" with the government text.
The latter is therefore "suspended" pending an examination by the court on the merits.
"We will be able to challenge Biden's unconstitutional abuse of power in court," Conservative Texas Governor Greg Abbott responded on Twitter.
BREAKING: The Federal Court of Appeals just issued a temporary halt to Biden's vaccine mandate.
Emergency hearings will take place soon.
We will have our day in court to strike down Biden's unconstitutional abuse of authority.
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- Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 6, 2021
In France, vaccination became compulsory on September 15 for people working in care, medico-social and social establishments.
The presentation of the health pass is compulsory for people working in establishments where the health pass must be presented, such as restaurants, cinemas, museums and mainline trains.