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More than two dozen businesses have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court late on Friday night after a federal appeals court allowed Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration to resume its vaccine mandate on large employers. “Twenty-seven business groups swiftly responded to the decision late Friday, filing an appeal to the Supreme Court to block the mandate,” Politico reported. “They argued the OSHA rule would ‘harm’ thousands of businesses across industries.” The appeal says: It will impose substantial, nonrecoverable compliance costs on those businesses. Those businesses will be faced with either incurring the costs of testing for the millions...

A total of six state governors have challenged the Defense Department’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate as it pertains to their respective state’s National Guard. On Tuesday, Republican governors from five states, Alaska, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska and Wyoming, published a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requesting exemptions for National Guard personnel from federal COVID-19 vaccination mandates. Their letter is the latest salvo in the battle between states and the federal government over inoculating those in uniform. In November, Oklahoma made headlines when the commanding general of the state’s National Guard issued a memo exempting Oklahoma Guardsmen from getting the COVID-19 vaccine....

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block a New York regulation that requires health care workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine without any religious exemptions.The vaccine mandate for health care workers, which went into effect in August, allows only for medical exemptions but not religious ones. The Supreme Court turned away two applications from doctors and nurses in the state for injunctive relief to allow religious exemptions while litigation continues in the lower courts over the mandate's constitutionality.

The state of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Thursday in an attempt to block the enforcement of its vaccine mandate for federal employees. Why it matters: The move comes one day after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin denied Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt's (R) request to exempt the state's National Guard from the mandate. It's the latest escalation in Stitt's scuffle with the Pentagon over the mandate, which requires the Air National Guard and Army National Guard to get vaccinated by Thursday and June 30, respectively. Those who fail to comply will be barred from drills and other...

Tired of my vanitys???? I thought FR was supposed to be an open forum to discuss things. I've brought pertinent articles and discussion items to the forefront. To me, what you did was no better than what Twitter and Facebook does on their website. Federal employees and military members deserve to know what's going on, and you shut me down, cancel my posting? Admin Moderator, I believe you have some explaining to do!

Good evening fellow Freepers. This post is not one that comes from a newspaper article, but one that comes from ME and it concerns happenings at a midwestern military base. I won't say which one it is because to disclose it openly at this point might do more harm than good, but what's now starting to happen needs to get out there. A meeting was held today. The meeting was scheduled last Friday by base personnel to take place today, they then canceled this meeting on Monday, then rescheduled, again, yesterday for today. No one knew what the meeting was...

A judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, finding that Biden likely lacks the authority to force them to get vaccinated. “This is not a case about whether vaccines are effective. They are. Nor is this a case about whether the government, at some level, and in some circumstances, can require citizens to obtain vaccines. It can,” U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, a George W. Bush nominee, wrote in the 29-page order. “The question presented here is narrow. Can the president use congressionally delegated authority to manage the federal procurement of goods and...

A federal court has issued a nationwide injunction protecting health care workers across the country from Joe Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate. Yesterday, in response to a multi-state lawsuit led by Missouri, a federal court barred the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine mandate for health care workers in 10 states who are employed at federally-funded health care clinics. That means they doctors and nurses can’t be fired for refusing the COVID vaccine despite Biden’s federal mandate requiring them to get it. Today, a federal court in Louisiana expanded on that ruling and blocked the vaccine mandate nationwide. The Daily Advertiser...

I have not been vaccinated for COVID-19 and will not do so, but not because I am anti-vaccine. I have had dear friends die of COVID who had not been vaccinated, and others died who got the jab, dying of COVID. Others did not get COVID but were sick in bed for weeks because of the vaccine. One 64-year-old friend died a few days after being vaccinated. His death was listed as a heart attack, but can anyone guarantee the shot had nothing to do with his death? There have been thousands of such cases within hours of the jab,...

What is contained below is a guide that came down to civilian personnel at the military base I work at. There was no mention that this information is classified or confidential, so I wanted to share this with everyone here. Keep in mind that this information is for Air Force civilian personnel, but could be applicable to other branches as well. I tried to remove all specific contact information, so if you want the actual document with ALL of the information it contains, FreepMail me with your email address and I'll send it to you. Be warned, it's a long...

he National Faith Advisory Board (NFAB) and more than 1,000 religious leaders sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Nov. 15 urging the Department of Defense to grant religious exemptions from the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for all military personnel. “As faith leaders representing millions of Americans from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds from across the country, we write to express our strong concern about the potential for military members to be stripped of their religious liberties by not being granted an exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate,” the letter reads. NFAB went on to reveal that out...

Today in our Navy SEAL 1 v. Biden case, federal judge Steven Merryday ordered each branch of the military to file a detailed report every 14 days beginning January 7, 2022. The order also stated that the federal executive orders regarding federal employees and civilian contractors expressly require religious exemption. Judge Merryday wrote that the military plaintiffs’ claim that the accommodation process is a ruse are “quite plausible” under the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act because the reports filed by the military branches thus far revealed not one of the 16,643 requests for religious accommodation have been granted and hundreds...

There is no way to post 35 pages of documents here, but I've linked the PDF file. Long and short, it looks like the lawsuit/temporary restraining order has failed. Check out the PDF, let me know what you think.

This video deals with the supposed Covid pandemic and what Dave feels is the only way to deal with what's happening in the world. It's a bit long, 23 minutes, but it is well worth the time. Dave is very astute in his rational and he comes to a very sobering realization and conclusion about this whole mess. Let me know what you think.

Federal Vaccine Mandate is Now *Suspended* Due to ‘Onslaught of Legal Challenges’ The Biden administration is in full retreat over its unlawful vaccine mandate. After wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy for months by mandating that federal contractors and businesses with more than 100 employees force employees to get ‘vaccinated’ for Covid-19, the White House is conceding it needs to suspend the authoritarian policy. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it was suspending the federal vaccine mandate’s enforcement: On Nov. 16, 2021, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it is suspending all implementation and enforcement...

The Pentagon can require Oklahoma National Guard members to get the COVID-19 vaccine, despite the state’s highest-ranking military official insisting he will not mandate that members be inoculated, the Defense Department’s top spokesman said Monday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “has the authorities he needs to require this vaccine across the force, including the National Guard,” press secretary John Kirby told reporters. “It is a lawful order for National Guardsmen to receive the COVID vaccine. It is a lawful order,” Kirby later said. “Refusing to do that, absent an approved exemption, puts them in the same potential [for punishment] as active-duty...

A judge on Friday rejected ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s challenge of the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate. Powell’s Texas-based group, dubbed Defending the Republic, filed a lawsuit in October on behalf of 16 active-duty service members “in support of their right to refuse” the COVID-19 vaccine. The lawsuit named Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, acting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Janet Woodcock, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro and Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth as defendants. The plaintiffs argued that the vaccine mandate imposed “unconstitutional...

The American Federation of Government Employees on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to delay the deadline for federal workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 from Nov. 22 to Jan. 4. The request comes after the Biden administration pushed back the deadline for federal contractors to get vaccinated from Dec. 8 to Jan. 4 to align with the vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses. The labor union, which represents around 700,000 federal and Washington, D.C., government workers, said it is unfair that the deadline for federal employees was not delayed as well. “This double standard has caused confusion and distress among federal...

As you all know I've been tracking this case for a long time. I am a federal employee and as such I have a lot of interest in Liberty Counsel's case for the military, federal employees and contractors. Unfortunately there isn't much to report. A minute entry was indicated on this website: Navy Seal 1 vs Biden but unfortunately unless you have an account nothing can be downloaded. However I was able to get a screenshot before the pay window came up and the only thing the document says was this: PROCEEDINGS: Preliminary InjunctionAll parties present and identified for the...

Today, Defending the Republic, through our local counsel, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government – including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, III, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, and FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock – on behalf of 16 active-duty military service members in support of their right to refuse the unconstitutional and unlawful COVID-19 vaccine mandate. These service members, which include those with natural immunity to COVID-19, women who wish to become pregnant, or who have medical conditions for which no clinical trial data is available, face severe punishment, including dishonorable discharge, the loss of their constitutional rights, and potential...