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“The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals “just ruled Covid vax mandates unconstitutional.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Independent presidential candidate. Claim dated 12 Jun 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse

What PolitiFact found

A U.S. appeals court overturned a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a school district’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for staff. But it did not rule on whether vaccine mandates were constitutional.

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In short

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Independent presidential candidate) made this claim around 12 June 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 June 2024, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has 55 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 27 of them false or fake, 27 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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