On Monday, the Supreme Court dismissed two challenges from Children’s Health Defense, a non-profit organization that is against vaccinations, particularly those for children. The challenges were related to the COVID-19 vaccinations and were filed by the organization’s founder, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In upholding decisions against the group from the federal appeals courts in New Orleans and Philadelphia, the justices were silent.
The organization opposed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration‘s approval to give children the coronavirus vaccine in a Texas case alongside parents. Children’s Health Defense filed a lawsuit in New Jersey against Rutgers University, arguing that the school did not require faculty or staff to be vaccinated but that most students had to be in order to attend classes on campus in 2021.
A lawsuit from Children’s Health Defense accuses several news outlets, including The Associated Press, of breaking antitrust laws by identifying false material, including that on COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. The lawsuit is still pending. Kennedy was named one of the group’s attorneys in the case, but he left the organization when he declared his candidacy for president.
