The Supreme Court will
hear argument on the Biden vaccine mandates on Friday, Jan. 7. Officially, the cases are about questions of federal
power, administrative
law, and the
capacity of Congress to delegate authority to agencies. But what is fundamentally driving the
litigation is the libertarian
myth – one that may be embraced by the new conservative Supreme Court
majority - that freedom can be promoted by hamstringing the capacities of government.
I explain in my latest column at The Hill, here.