The Supreme Court just blocked the mandate!!
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As usual SCOTUS took an easy out by ruling with regard to OSHA only and not on the constitutionality of the mandates. A case is going to have to be structured to challenge that very question of the limits to Executive Power of the President with regards to health mandates and then see if the court will have balls enough to take it on. This decision only reins in the authoritative reach of OSHA and that's it. But then again, that was the only relief asked for in the lawsuit. The healthcare worker case I am not as familiar with and do not know what relief was being sought and on what grounds. SCOTUS does not want to really make any constitutionally ground breaking decisions and avoids them at all costs. They would much rather pass that responsibility off to others.
You're right and that probably doesn't bode too well for the abortion case. Roberts tries so hard to be above politics, but the Supreme Court is inherently political. Nothing he can do about it, except use faulty reasoning to avoid looking political.
They will avoid a case that would have far reaching implications. They only tend to take chip shots at issues just to make it appear as though they are doing something. Then again, it would be scary to have SCOTUS hear more challenging far reaching cases. Trump's picks to the court are questionable at best. They are not the hard core conservatives we were led to believe and are very much aligned to big business - especially Barrett. The Federalist Society is a joke. In the end, Trump's biggest downfalls were due to the really crappy advice that he knuckled under to instead of following his own good instincts.