Breaking: Children’s Health Defense Seeks to Intervene in High-Stakes Vaccine Lawsuit

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is asking to join in a high-stakes court battle between the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In an emergency motion filed Wednesday, CHD asked a Massachusetts federal court to join as a defendant, along with Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in a suit filed by the AAP and other medical groups against Kennedy and HHS.

The AAP lawsuit seeks to block recent changes HHS made to the childhood vaccine schedule and other vaccine-related policies.

Attorney Rick Jaffe and Massachusetts attorney Robert N. Meltzer filed the motion to intervene in the case.

Jaffe represents CHD and five other plaintiffs in a separate lawsuit against the AAP. That suit accuses the AAP of running a decades-long racketeering scheme to defraud American families about the safety of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine schedule.

Jaffe said the AAP and HHS are litigating whether the government has the authority to revise the schedule — but neither side is addressing the more fundamental issue at stake: the safety of the former childhood schedule.