Federal Judge Blocks for Entire Navy Biden’s Pentagon Vaccine Mandate
A federal district court on Monday granted a motion that would treat all sailors with religious objections to Biden’s Pentagon vaccine mandate as part of a single class in a lawsuit brought against the agency by First Liberty on behalf of 35 Navy SEALs.
Judge Reed O’Connor for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the 35 Navy SEALs suing the Department of Defense for infringing on their religious freedoms will be seen as representatives of all sailors with religious objections to the vaccine mandate.
This effectively means that in addition to the SEALs, whose case is still in litigation and are therefore exempt from separation from the Navy, the DOD cannot separate any sailor with a religious objection to the vaccine mandate while the case is pending, perhaps numbering close to 4,000.
The federal court had previously blocked the Pentagon from taking any actions against the Navy SEALs in making deployment, assignment and other operation decisions, but the Supreme Court lifted that injunction last week in a setback to the SEALs. However, the Navy still cannot discharge them. – READ MORE
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