evidence: LAS VEGAS (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday confirmed the legality of President Joe Biden's Covid vaccine mandate for federal contractors, reversing a permanent injunction on enforcement in the state of Arizona. [...] Then-Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued Biden, the U.S. government and various Arizona state agencies after Biden’s 2021 announcement that all federal employees and contractors, along with employees of private employers with 100 or more workers, must receive the Covid-19 vaccine, and that government agencies can only do business with contractors that follow to Covid-19 guidelines. Brnovich and the state claimed Biden’s order violated the Procurement Act, which gives the president power to regulate government agencies’ spending in a way that "advances economy and efficiency" of the nation. [...] Given the context of an unprecedented pandemic that claimed more than one million American lives and billions in economic losses, the panel concluded that Biden violated no laws when he issued the vaccine mandate.