The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a legal challenge to block New Mexico’s vaccine mandate for health care workers, prisons, and nursing homes, as well as other settings. The nation’s high court didn’t offer a comment (pdf) on why it denied issuing an injunction against the order, the latest time the Supreme Court rejected attempts to block states’ vaccination mandates. Previously, the Supreme Court denied challenges against mandates in New York state and Maine, respectively. Justice Neil Gorsuch, who previously dissented in a ruling that declined to block a New York state vaccine mandate, denied the application on Tuesday. New Mexico’s vaccine mandate, which went into effect in August of this year, allows for religious and medical exemptions. The separate legal challenge against New York’s health care worker mandate had argued that the state acted in an unconstitutional manner by not allowing religious exemptions. Two women, including a former nurse …