In a major blow to the Biden administration, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld an injunction on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate affecting more than 3.5 million federal workers. In a rare en banc ruling, ten of sixteen judges on the 5th Circuit reversed the court’s earlier decision ruling there’s no constitutional […]
Vaccine Mandates
Republicans Demand Answers From Pentagon on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate After Biden Declares Pandemic Over
Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) are demanding answers from Pentagon on its COVID-19 vaccine mandate after President Biden declared on Sept. 19 that the “pandemic is over.” The letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III follows concerns regarding the legitimacy of the process used to consider religious accommodations and reports unvaccinated […]
Major Defeat for Vaccine Mandates as Judge Rules NY Police Officers Fired Over Refusing COVID Shot Must be Reinstated
The New York Police Department’s largest union experienced a major victory on Friday when a judge ruled police officers fired for refusing to get the COVID vaccine have to be “reinstated to the status they were as of the date of the wrongful action.” In a shocking decision, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Lyle Frank ruled […]
Judge Strikes Down Federal COVID Vaccine and Mask Mandate for Head Start Program
In a devastating blow to yet another one of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a federal judge in Louisiana on Wednesday ruled the government cannot require Head Start program teachers, staff and volunteers be vaccinated against COVID-19, nor can they require that adults and children wear face masks. The jab-or-job mandate affected nearly 280,000 […]
Federal Judge Blocks Air Force COVID Vaccine Mandate Nationwide, Unconvinced by Government’s Arguments
A federal judge in Ohio on Wednesday blocked the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate nationwide for Air Force, Space Force and Air National Guard servicemembers who requested religious exemptions. U.S. District Judge Matthew McFarland two weeks earlier issued a 14-day temporary restraining order while the military made its case as to why the preliminary injunction shouldn’t […]