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 […]
Vaccine Mandates
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 […]
A Master List of Where Colleges Stand on COVID Vaccine Mandates
As students head back to school, many are asking where their college now stands on COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Some of the best colleges still mandate COVID vaccines — even though there is no fully approved vaccine available in the U.S. and science shows the vaccine neither prevents infection nor transmission. Other top-tier schools have either […]
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 […]