VA AG: State Colleges Can’t Require Vax For Students

January 28, 2022 Republicans, Trump cultists

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) issued a legal opinion on Friday, telling public colleges and universities in the commonwealth that they cannot require students to get the coronavirus vaccine.

“I conclude that, absent specific authority conferred by the General Assembly, public institutions of higher education in Virginia may not require vaccination against COVID-19 as a general condition of students’ enrollment or in-person attendance,” Miyares wrote in a letter to Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), who had asked for an advisory opinion on the matter.

Miyares argued that because Virginia’s state legislature has not passed legislation mandating the vaccine for students, higher education institutions in the commonwealth do not have the right to mandate them.

Read the full article. One of Miyares’ first moves was to fire a lawyer working for the Capitol riot committee.

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— The Hill (@thehill) January 28, 2022