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Eugenics Revived: Red States, Civil Libertarians Urge SCOTUS to Fix Precedent Behind COVID Mandates, by Greg Piper – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Greg Piper, Just the News, February 1, 2026

Courts have been botching 1905 precedent upholding mandate for vaccine that actually stops transmission since Buck v. Bell, which upheld forced sterilization of “imbeciles,” and especially in COVID era, SCOTUS hears.

Whenever COVID-19 vaccine mandates were legally challenged, public entities were likely to invoke a 1905 Supreme Court precedent upholding a $5 fine on a Massachusetts man for violating a local smallpox vaccination ordinance. Invented a century earlier, the vaccine allegedly has a 95% effective rate against infection.

An advocacy group that fights “unwanted medical treatments” is asking the high court to take a fresh look at the case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, and how courts have interpreted it – extrapolating the holding far beyond the facts of the case – and getting an assist from several red states and a public interest law firm that seeks to rein in the administrative state. …