December 26, 2024

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally at Legends Event Center on December 20, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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this Supreme Court Two coronavirus-related appeals filed by Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., were dismissed Monday.

The judge decided not to hear the cases, but lower court rulings against the group remain in effect.

One of the cases challenges the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency authorization of a Covid-19 vaccine in December 2020, and the other targets the authorization of a Covid-19 vaccine from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

In the FDA case, the organization claimed in court documents that the COVID-19 vaccine “is ineffective and lacks proper review.” The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Kennedy’s group lacked legal standing to sue.

In the Rutgers dispute, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia concluded that the plaintiffs “have not asserted any reasonable claim for relief.”

Kennedy himself left the organization he founded in April 2023 to run for president. He failed to advance in the Democratic primary and is now running as an independent.

On the campaign trail, he mostly downplayed his anti-vaccination activities, but November He spoke at the Children’s Health Defense Conference.

Although Kennedy has left Rutgers, he is still listed as Rutgers’ attorney in documents filed with the Supreme Court.

In a separate vaccine-related case, the court also rejected a challenge to Connecticut’s decision to repeal religious exemptions for school vaccinations.

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