The Damage Done
Posted on 03/02/2022 7:52:48 AM PST by shadowlands1960
On Monday the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Navy's request to reinstate the U.S. Navy's COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
In November, dozens of U.S. Navy SEALs claimed they were wrongfully denied COVID vaccination exemptions on religious grounds.
The suit, which lists 35 unnamed service members, argues that that the Defense Department's mandate violates their First Amendment rights.
While the percentage of vaccinated active duty personnel in each service is at 95 percent or higher, the number of unvaccinated personnel is close to 30,000.
The Navy itself has previously said that it has not granted an exemption to any vaccine in the past seven years.
A federal appeals court delivered a blow to Pentagon's vaccine mandate and denied the Biden Administration's attempt to reinstate the U.S. Navy's COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
On Monday the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Navy's request to reinstate the U.S. Navy's COVID-19 vaccine requirement a month after a federal judge in Fort Worth halted the mandate.
'[Evidence] suggests that the Navy has effectively stacked the deck against even those exemptions supported by Plaintiffs' immediate commanding officers and military chaplains,' the three-judge panel said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Holy cow! That service person isn’t wearing gloves. You can almost see all the germs climbing all over that shot.
The story the other day was that the court just refused to remove a stay on the mandate pending their ruling, not that they had made an actual ruling on the mandate. Also, that case seems to be specific to Navy SEALs seeking religious exemptions, not about the Navy’s mandate as a whole.
I’m not sure if this British source even understands the legal intricacies at play here.
I'm sure John Bolton will claim that President Trump would have done the same thing as Biden's creeps in the DOD.
And that’s not a KN95 mask either.
The Daily Mail isn’t known for in depth research... very much a tabloid. They get a lot of play because they are one of the few outlets that report on black on white/Asian crime in the USA.
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the Department of Defense’s emergency stay request, which would have allowed the mandate to go into effect as the case goes through courts.
That would normally create an irreversible stain on a military record, but there needs to be an effort to preclude that.
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