- Two lawyers arguing against the Biden administration's vaccine mandate will have to do so remotely.
- Solicitors general for Ohio and Louisiana have both contracted COVID-19.
- The Supreme Court is set to review challenges to the administration's mandates announced last year.
Two lawyers arguing against the Biden administration's vaccine mandate before the Supreme Court on Friday will have to do it remotely after testing positive for COVID-19.
Louisiana's Solicitor General Liz Murrill will be making her case by phone "in accordance with the COVID protocols of the Court," a Louisiana Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed to Insider.
Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers will also be making his case remotely after testing positive, Reuters reported.
Flowers' office told Reuters the state lawyer, who was vaccinated and boosted, is experiencing "exceptionally mild" symptoms and has since recovered, but tested positive for COVID-19 on a PCR test as part of the Supreme Court's COVID-19 guidelines.
The Supreme Court set to review challenges to the Biden administration's federal vaccine mandates announced last year, Insider's Erin Snodgrass previously reported.
One mandate, from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, targets private companies with over 100 workers and requires them to be vaccinated, or tested regularly for COVID-19 and wear masks.
The other mandate, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, requires that all healthcare workers employed by operations that get certain federal funding are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Biden's White House announced the two mandates in November, and has since faced pushback from Republicans, who accuse the federal government of overreaching its authority.