Posted on 07/29/2022 4:36:38 PM PDT by george76
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- A federal judge in the Southern District of Ohio extended the time that the Air Force and the Air Force Academy could not enforce the COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Thursday. Two weeks ago, Judge Matthew W. McFarland placed a temporary restraining order on the AF and AFA that barred them from enforcing the mandate temporarily.
Now, a court order means they cannot enforce the mandate until a trial is held or the order is struck down on appeal. Both of which are potentially months down the road.
The preliminary injunction order states, "due to the systematic nature of what the Court views as violations of Airmen's constitutional rights to practice their religions as they please, the Court is well within its bounds to extend the existing preliminary injunction to all Class Members."
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Multiple Air Force Academy cadets were denied graduation and commissioning assignments
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Stephen Crampton, Senior Counsel attorney with Thomas More Society, is representing AF airmen in a similar lawsuit in Georgia. He says Thursday's ruling is the next step in the pursuit of a permanent junction against the vaccine mandate for all military members.
"This preliminary injunction sends a huge message across all branches that we are not going to tolerate this and we hope this will inject a little more backbone into other judges that are deciding these cases," Crampton said.
Crampton's argument, along with another federal lawsuit filed in South Carolina, was that the DOD violated military members' constitutional rights by overwhelmingly denying their religious accommodation requests.
"The Biden administration has decreed somewhat under the radar 'no religious exemptions to be granted. No matter what the branch. No matter what the circumstances,'" Crampton said.
A key ruling in the preliminary injunction is regarding the commissioning status of the unvaccinated cadets. Each of them were told they would not be commissioned post-graduation from the Academy.
However, the ruling states, "Defendants (AF and AFA) shall not refuse to accept for commissioning or enlistment any inductee or appointee due to their refusal to get vaccinated for COVID-19 due to their sincerely held religious beliefs."
Crampton said he believes that as long as the preliminary injunction is in place, the Air Force Academy will be required to commission the cadets.
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Jameson Barnard, one of the four cadets, told 13 Investigates that all the cadets were given the exact same denial letter. The letter, dated December 22, 2021, states that "remaining unvaccinated poses a threat to all exposed."
13 Investigates spoke with Barnard on Thursday. He is now working a civilian engineering job and says he would no longer be interested in a commissioning assignment if offered one.
"At this point, I would not take commission just based on how this whole thing was handled," Barnard said. "It would have been nice if they would have at least considered our religious exemptions, but they only offered blanket denials."
13 Investigates reached out to the Air Force Academy to seek comment on how this order impacts the unvaccinated cadets. Dean Miller, Air Force Academy spokesperson said:
Based on the submittal date of religious accommodation requests from three cadets from the Class of 2022, the injunction does apply to them. The Department of the Air Force will comply with the court order.
Dean Miller -- AFA Spokesperson
PTL and pass the Ivermectin, for any damages already done.
They openly admit that the shot don’t protect you from Wuhan/Fauci virus yet them demand that you get them because you are endangering the vaccinated?????????
Agreed!
Bet those who refused got kicked off the promotion list.
Your summary is about the size of it -
I know a pilot in particular who has been denied being able to fly just because he hasn't taken the clot shot, but many more caved under the same threats of retaliation.
These unlawful, unethical, immoral shots need to stop and I mean stop now!
The military should be left alone to run it’s own affairs. That’s why we have civilian control. Make sense? The idea is that they have only one job.
Outsiders should not interfere. Did it stop BJ with his stand towards gays? It was political. Now it’s the shots. Overstepping.
Truman integrated the services-good. Took an executive order. If left alone the military would have had to change on it’s own. It just would have taken awhile longer. No one knows how long. The lefties will always encroach on these areas more than the conservatives. It’s what they do. Can’t leave well enough alone. Just look at the SPR.
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Correct - you are endangering the Jabbed by making them see what the Jabbed have done to themselves when they stroke out at 24 years old.
The only way these Unconstitutional Edicts hold up isfor the 99.9% corrupt SCOTUS giving the thumbs up. Iit’s just fine to mandate unapproved experimental medical “treatment” that can kill and maim. I don’t even throw SCOTUS a bone for Roe or 2nd Amendment as that could have been done long ago, but they waited until another major election to help call out the Dogs to the Polls.
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The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
Has he looked into companies like Wheels Up or NetJets?
FWLIW, I was recently looking at a TN pharmacy. TN allow OTC sale of Ivermectin.
While I’m glad indy pharmacies are selling it, for the price, I’ll stick with my veterinary stuff, thanks.
Anyone with half a brain can see how diabolical the vax mandate is and always has been. The injectors hide behind an emergency use authorization, which they think will insure their immunity from civil and criminal liability. However, that’s only true if there is no fraud involved and the vax program is full of fraud committed against world humanity. Therefore, mandatory involuntary injections violate the Nuremberg Code of crimes against humanity and everyone knows it. Death is the appropriate penalty that awaits all fraudsters. Why is it that no one isn’t shouting out to the heavens in disgust? In my opinion, the reason is higher ups are being threatened to go along with this alien experiment or face extinction. We are sure in a fine kettle of Bizzle nut oil and there’s no Horton around to save us.
“The letter, dated December 22, 2021, states that “remaining unvaccinated poses a threat to all exposed.” Total bull Obama.
I graduated from that place. Back then we had a real science faculty.
I was on the faculty there a bit later. We still had a real science faculty.
The statement is not provable and shows that the speaker and the clowns that wrote it NEVER would have received a passing grade from ANY of my department.
Gosh…,how much was it??
If they can't live with that, they should be allowed to seek public office provisionally if they volunteer to be used as a human guinea pig for dangerous new experimental treatments.
If they do not immediately show gratitude for such leniency in the face of their crime against humanity they should be simply used as human guinea pigs for dangerous new experimental treatments as the only way they can earn money to eat...which is a lot more similar to what they forced others to do.
He was appointed by Trump.
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