CONCORD — New Hampshire joined a lawsuit Friday to block federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates along with nine other states with Republican governors.
The suit against the federal government claims the mandates for federal contractors and federally contracted employees is illegal, although a 1905 U.S. Supreme Court decision declared mandatory smallpox vaccines constitutional in Jacobson vs. Massachusetts.
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