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Florida sues Biden administration over vaccine mandate

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announce lawsuit against Biden administration in Lakeland. (photo via: DeSantis Facebook Live)
Talia Blake
Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announce lawsuit against Biden administration in Lakeland. (photo via: DeSantis Facebook Live)

Florida is suing the Biden administration over their COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the lawsuit Thursday in Lakeland accompanied by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. 

Moody said this country is not a dictatorship. President Biden, or his handlers, don’t have the ability to control everything in this country," she said. "We the states have rights and our citizens have rights and freedoms.”

The mandate would require federal contractors to get vaccinated by December 8. DeSantis said this lawsuit seeks an injunction to prevent that. 

 

After a brief stint as Morning Edition Producer at The Public’s Radio in Rhode Island, Talia Blake returned to Central Florida Public Media. She is a graduate of the University of Central Florida with degrees in both Broadcast Journalism and Psychology. While at UCF, she was an intern for Central Florida’s public affairs show, Intersection. She joined on as Morning Edition Host in 2019. In 2022, Ms. Blake was appointed to the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalist’s board of directors.