Federal Judge Gives Biden The Finger – Sides With Navy Seals In Controversial Case

President Biden’s hopes of forcing the vaccine on the military have just suffered a major blow after a federal judge in Texas issued a temporary injunction Monday against the president’s mandate, in favor of 35 Navy SEALs seeking religious exemption.

Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction against Biden’s military mandate prohibiting the Pentagon from forcing the 35 Navy SEALs involved in the lawsuit to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

The injunction only applies to the servicemen involved in the lawsuit, not to the mandate in general, but it could pave the way for more to come.

O’Connor’s ruling says in part:

“Our nation asks the men and women in our military to serve, suffer, and sacrifice. But we do not ask them to lay aside their citizenry and give up the very rights they have sworn to protect. Every president since the signing of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act has praised the men and women of the military for their bravery and service in protecting the freedoms this country guarantees.

In this case, members of the military seek protection under those very freedoms. Thirty-five Navy Special Warfare servicemembers allege that the military’s mandatory vaccination policy violates their religious freedoms under the First Amendment and Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The Navy provides a religious accommodation process, but by all accounts, it is theater. The Navy has not granted a religious exemption to any vaccine in recent memory. It merely rubber stamps each denial. The Navy servicemembers in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect. The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution.

Having considered the briefing, oral argument, relevant facts, and applicable law, the Court concludes that Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction should be and is hereby GRANTED.”

O’Connor’s ruling marks a serious win for the SEALs who brought the lawsuit last month. The SEALs, who have all applied for a religious exemption to the mandate, argued that the Pentagon’s slow response to their requests is a violation of their rights.

The Pentagon has yet to approve a single request for a religious exemption to its mandate for military members.

Each branch of the military has received thousands of requests for religious exemptions to the military vaccine mandate. While the Pentagon has doled out a handful of denials, it has yet to approve any request for a religious exemption.

The lack of approvals has sparked mass outrage as many feel it’s the pentagon’s way of brushing them off completely. Hence the SEAL’s lawsuits claiming that the Pentagon is violating servicemembers civil rights.

Each branch has already hit its deadline for its members to receive the vaccine. The Navy and Air Force began dismissing unvaccinated members last month – despite the pentagon’s refusal to issue exemptions.

Author: Arthur Malak


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