Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday signed an executive order directing state executive branch agencies to cooperate with the Alabama attorney general’s office as it challenges the Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandates and, when possible, to not comply with the federal effort.
“I am adamantly opposed to federal mandates related to the Covid-19 vaccine and adamantly opposed to state mandates related to the Covid-19 vaccine, plain and simple,” the Republican governor said in a statement.
“As long as I am your governor, the state of Alabama will not force anyone to take a Covid-19 vaccine.”
President Joe Biden in September imposed stringent new vaccine rules on federal workers, large employers, and health care staff in a sweeping attempt to contain the coronavirus.
Ivey’s executive order is the latest action from a Republican governor in an effort to curb what is being seen as an overreach by the federal government, and to preserve states’ rights.
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