Adults understood the risks and made their decisions. Smart company lawyers advised their clients to grant blanket religious waivers,
77 Chief Judge Priscilla Richman Austin, TX 1954 2005–present 2019–present G.W. Bush 63 Circuit Judge Edith Jones Houston, TX 1949 1985–present 2006–2012 Reagan 64 Circuit Judge Jerry Edwin Smith Houston, TX 1946 1987–present — — Reagan 71 Circuit Judge Carl E. Stewart Shreveport, LA 1950 1994–present 2012–2019 Clinton 73 Circuit Judge James L. Dennis New Orleans, LA 1936 1995–present — — Clinton 78 Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod Houston, TX 1966 2007–present — — G.W. Bush 79 Circuit Judge Leslie H. Southwick Jackson, MS 1950 2007–present — — G.W. Bush 80 Circuit Judge Catharina Haynes Dallas, TX 1963 2008–present — — G.W. Bush 81 Circuit Judge James E. Graves Jr. Jackson, MS 1953 2011–present — — Obama 82 Circuit Judge Stephen A. Higginson New Orleans, LA 1961 2011–present — — Obama 83 Circuit Judge Gregg Costa Houston, TX 1972 2014–present — — Obama 84 Circuit Judge Don Willett Austin, TX 1966 2018–present — — Trump 85 Circuit Judge James C. Ho Dallas, TX 1973 2018–present — — Trump 86 Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan Baton Rouge, LA 1972 2018–present — — Trump 87 Circuit Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt New Orleans, LA 1960 2018–present — — Trump 88 Circuit Judge Andy Oldham Austin, TX 1978 2018–present — — Trump 89 Circuit Judge Cory T. Wilson Jackson, MS 1970 2020–present — — Trump
2 Clinton judges and 3 Obama judges.
Which one switched sides?
Leaving aside all the issues of liberty, it’s absolutely asinine that there’s even still a debate over mandates of these so-called vaccines. Once it became obvious that the mRNA vaxxes don’t actually prevent infection and transmission (with seemingly every single goshdarned quadruple-vaxxed Dem politician getting covid-19), what’s there to debate? This all should have been over months ago.
In the en banc poll, four judges voted in favor of rehearing (Judges Smith, Higginson, Costa, and Willett), and thirteen judges voted against rehearing (Chief Judge Richman and Judges Jones, Stewart, Dennis, Elrod, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, and Wilson).
Why does it have to be framed as a religious issue? If a person did not want to be subjected to an experimental gene therapy, that should be enough to prevent companies from mandating medical procedures.
If a future jab is created without a link to the cells from abortions, would the religious objection argument failed in courts?
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And many of these same companies can’t fill job openings, in some cases for over a year now....