Richard Jaffe, Esq.

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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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 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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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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In my last post I said we would file an emergency motion in the First Circuit within days. It took longer than that, for reasons anyone who has ever assembled a 903-page appendix will understand. The motion is now filed. This is the third post in a series. The first explained why Murphy’s order shuts down the federal vaccine apparatus. The second announced the appeal. This one covers what we actually asked for and what to expect. The First Circuit…

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Today, March 25th, I filed a notice of appeal in AAP v. Kennedy, No. 1:25-cv-11916-BEM (D. Mass.), on behalf of Children’s Health Defense, two physicians, and two mothers whose children died after receiving multiple simultaneous vaccines. We’re appealing two things. First, Judge Murphy’s February 27 denial of our motion to intervene as defendants and counterclaim plaintiffs. Murphy denied the motion in a one-sentence order with no analysis of any of the four factors under Rule 24(a)(2). No findings on timeliness,…

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