A federal judge in Boston on Monday stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S., saying the Trump administration had likely violated the law.
Judge Brian E. Murphy issued a preliminary ruling finding that Kennedy’s reconstitution of a key vaccine advisory panel, and changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule in January, were likely illegal. Specifically, he ruled, those policy changes violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs how federal agencies ought to consider and implement policy changes.
