The losers here love to make a bogeyman out of Fauci folks, but he had the weight of the law behind him.

In the USA, vaccine mandates are primarily grounded in the legal authority of federal and state governments. The U.S. Constitution grants states the power to enforce public health measures under the police power, which includes vaccine mandates. Federal authority comes from laws such as the Public Health Service Act, which allows the government to respond to public health emergencies. The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of vaccine mandates in cases like Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905), which affirmed states' rights to mandate smallpox vaccination.