evidence: 9th Circuit Vaccine Mandate Ruling Mired By Dis-ingenious Framing From Vaccine Skeptics. A little over a week ago there was a small revival in the debate surrounding COVID-19 vaccine mandates, coming in the form of a 9th circuit appellate court ruling. The ruling brought forth comments from many of the usual popular vaccine skeptics, with RFK Jr’s diatribe on twitter about how the court ruled COVID vaccine mandates were unconstitutional due to them not stopping transmission serving as the most prominent instance I came across on social media.