Group founded by RFK Jr. sponsors lawsuit against him for not creating vaccine safety task force

Children's Health Defense unmasked itself this week as the sponsor of a lawsuit filed two months ago against its founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, for failure to create a vaccine safety task force under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

Nevada attorney Ray Flores, representing himself as the plaintiff, accuses Kennedy of neglecting his "ongoing, non-discretionary mandate to establish an agency task force comprised of the heads of" the National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "to ameliorate the risk of deadly and debilitating vaccine side effects" given that their manufacturers are legally immune.

Neither Kennedy nor his predecessors have followed this obligation as "the number of licensed and often mandatory childhood vaccines has increased" from four in 1983 to "over 75 doses contained in 19 different vaccines on the schedule in 2025," the suit says.

It's been more than 100 days since President Trump formed the Make America Healthy Again Commission chaired by Kennedy, past "any grace period" he should get before Flores uses the "broad citizen’s action provision" in the vaccine injury law to compel his action, the suit says.

"Our first priority will ALWAYS be children’s health," CHD said Tuesday. "Sec. Kennedy has FAILED [...] so we WILL be holding him accountable." Its morning show also interviewed Flores.

Its publication The Defender elaborated on the basis for the suit. CHD CEO Mary Holland said every HHS secretary has violated "blackletter law" and that failure is "a blow to the rule of law."

Before he became a politician, Kennedy and co-counsel Aaron Siri sued HHS in 2018 for copies of the biennial reports required by the 1986 law after it ignored Freedom of Information Act requests, The Defender noted.