He is, BUT the problem is when those cases from the states reached the Supreme Court, especially Pennsylvania's, the Court (I'm looking at you Alito) refused to intervene. It's easy for Gorsuch and Alito to criticize now, but people were begging SCOTUS to stop the madness in the summer of 2020.
But it didn't.
Never forget that the federal gov’t passed the CARES Act which injected $2 trillion into the economy, making the shutdown less painful for the people and kicking off the inflation spike we are still living with today.