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Sec. Kennedy Makes Changes to Two More HHS Vaccine Committees (and Even I Had to Look One of Them Up)

Sec. Kennedy Makes Changes to Two More HHS Vaccine Committees (and Even I Had to Look One of Them Up)

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There have been a lot of federal vaccine announcements lately. I am having trouble figuring out how all the pieces fit together, and I follow this stuff fairly closely. Maybe some of you feel the same way. So, let me try to explain it to myself, out loud, and hopefully it will make sense to all of us. First, a recap of where the executive order left things I wrote about the Gold Standard executive order the President signed on…

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Split-screen YouTube thumbnail: left man in black scrubs, right man in blazer speaking, decorative screen behind; episode about medical freedom with Dr. Pierre Kory.
Pierre Kory and Me on the Jimmy Dore Show on the Preliminary Injunction

Pierre Kory and Me on the Jimmy Dore Show on the Preliminary Injunction

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Good discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aUXO9uIbfk Stay Tuned for What’s Next! Rick Jaffe, Esq.

Against the Advice of Counsel, Trump Takes the Shot

Against the Advice of Counsel, Trump Takes the Shot

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The Gold Standard Executive Order Explained, and the Hard Part That Comes Next Since roughly the turn of the year, the political operation inside this administration has been working to get vaccines off the table until after the midterms. For those of us who have spent years on the vaccine issue, this has been a very disappointing few months. Monday’s executive order ended it. The Wall Street Journal reported in late July that Trump had been pressing Kennedy privately the…

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The Doctor Will Speak to You Now: Judge Shubb Enjoins the Medical Boards’ “Covid Misinformation” Policy in Kory v. Bonta

The Doctor Will Speak to You Now: Judge Shubb Enjoins the Medical Boards’ “Covid Misinformation” Policy in Kory v. Bonta

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On Monday afternoon, we had oral argument in Pierre Kory et al. v. Rob Bonta et al, our second Covid misinformation case before Eastern District Court Judge William B. Shubb. If you have been following the case in my blog or in CHD’s The Defender, you are familiar with the journey, and it has been a tough slog. Last evening, August 5th, Judge Shubb enjoined the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board from investigating, prosecuting, accusing, or…

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The Air Force Has a Religious Accommodation Process. Rube Goldberg Designed It and Kafka Runs It.

The Air Force Has a Religious Accommodation Process. Rube Goldberg Designed It and Kafka Runs It.

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Yesterday we filed a First Amended Complaint in Children’s Health Defense v. Hegseth, No. 1:25-cv-04363-ACR, in federal court in Washington, D.C. Here it is: FACfilestamped We basically reframed based on the three service members we added to the complaint. But let me back up and explain how we got here. The Original Complaint and the Noted Problem The complaint we filed in December challenged the front door. The Department of Defense adopts the CDC childhood immunization schedule wholesale as a…

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The President Just Ordered the Vaccine Schedule Moved Toward the Rest of the Developed World, (But It May Not Happen So Fast)

The President Just Ordered the Vaccine Schedule Moved Toward the Rest of the Developed World, (But It May Not Happen So Fast)

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On May 29, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Realigning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries” (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/05/realigning-united-states-core-childhood-vaccine-recommendations-with-best-practices-from-peer-developed-countries/). The headline is exactly what vaccine policy reformers have wanted for years. By this order, the federal government is now directed, as a matter of stated national policy, to bring the American childhood vaccine schedule into line with the schedules used by Japan, Denmark, Germany, and the rest of the developed world. Hallelujah! I…

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Cert Denied in Stockton v. Brown, BUT WE’RE NOT DONE

Cert Denied in Stockton v. Brown, BUT WE’RE NOT DONE

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On Monday, May 4, the Supreme Court denied cert in Stockton v. Brown. No dissent. The mainstream coverage missed most of the story. A week before the Supreme Court conferenced the case in mid-April, the Washington Medical Commission withdrew the Statements of Charges against the two named physician petitioners, Drs. Richard Eggleston and Thomas Siler. On April 13, the Washington Solicitor General’s office filed a Rule 15.8 letter advising the Court of the withdrawals and representing that the Commission “intends…

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Dispatch from the Trenches of AAP v. Kennedy: Two Courthouses, Incoming from Friends and Foes Alike

Dispatch from the Trenches of AAP v. Kennedy: Two Courthouses, Incoming from Friends and Foes Alike

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AAP v. Kennedy is the lawsuit in which the institutional vaccine establishment, led by the American Academy of Pediatrics, is asking a federal court to undo what Secretary Kennedy, the CDC, and the reconstituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices have done over the past year: moving several childhood vaccines from a universal recommendation to shared clinical decision-making, removing the COVID-19 shot from the recommended schedule for healthy children and pregnant women, and reconstituting the advisory committee that recommends what goes…

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The Supreme Court Denied Cert in Kory v. Bonta, but, Chiles Already Gave Us What We Needed

The Supreme Court Denied Cert in Kory v. Bonta, but, Chiles Already Gave Us What We Needed

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The Supreme Court denied our cert petition in Kory v. Bonta on Monday, April 20, 2026. It would have been nice to get a cert grant and a reversal, but we didn’t need it. Recall the procedural posture This case was on the shadow docket. There has been no final judgment on the merits. We moved for a preliminary injunction in the Eastern District of California. Judge Shubb denied it. The Ninth Circuit affirmed, and we took a cert petition…

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Doing what we have to do: We Just Filed a Stay Motion in the AAP v Kennedy, and Why It Matters

Doing what we have to do: We Just Filed a Stay Motion in the AAP v Kennedy, and Why It Matters

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I just filed a stay motion in American Academy of Pediatrics v. Kennedy, No. 1:25-cv-11916-BEM (D. Mass.), case, asking District Judge Brian motion to stay his Preliminary Injunction order he entered on March 16. I have no idea why the Government hadn’t already filed this motion. I did it because I initially sought the relief from the First Circuit, and they sent me back to the district court to ask there first, and so I did, today. Here is the…

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