Posted on 12/13/2021 2:53:38 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court turned down emergency requests by New York healthcare workers for a religious exemption from state requirements to vaccinate against Covid-19. A federal appeals court in New York previously denied the workers’ requests.
The court denied the requests in brief written orders. As is typical for such emergency actions, the majority didn’t explain its thinking. Three conservative justices—Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch—said they would have allowed the exemptions.
In October, the court denied a similar application from Maine healthcare workers seeking exemption from their state’s vaccination requirements, which lower courts had rejected. The same three conservatives dissented.
As in the Maine case, the New York applicants in separate lawsuits argued that they were entitled to a religious exception because state rules exempted a different category of covered workers: individuals who could suffer adverse health consequences, such as an allergic reaction, from the vaccine.
In the New York suits, nurses and other healthcare workers based their refusal to vaccinate on a religious objection to abortion. The workers believe “abortion-derived fetal cell lines” were used in testing, developing or producing the vaccine, one suit said. Neither lower courts nor the state have questioned the workers “sincerity or religiosity,” the brief said.
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Those two have been proving themselves to be unconstitutional liberals right from the get go. They are infiltrators, and sadly Trump fell for them. Neither of them is any better than Ginsberg.
That’s a federal case against the mandates. This was on the state level. I think it was believed the court could rule due to the religious exemption but for whatever reason didn’t.
Thought Kavanaugh and Amy were conservatives. Guess they are SPINELESS RINOS also.
Too bad that vaccination cards are not on the internet:
Are there any other boxes left?
SCOTUS aka Supreme Clowns of the United States?
“no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States”
Some NY nurse needs to file an Amendment XIV, Section 3 lawsuit to bar Governor Hochul from public office.
The best defense is a good offense.
Some bedridden folks need people to “clean” their houses.
I take it those claiming a religious exemption weren’t Muslims?
Two Muslim truck drivers win $240,000 because they were fired for refusing to deliver beer
Gonna say this again... I wonder if it’s relevant...
Acknowledging an exemption CONCEDES the legality of the mandate!!!
I only wish that Trumps horrid picks for the Supreme Court were the exception and not the rule.
But of course, none of it’s his fault.
So when do they rule on the constitutionality of vaccine mandates thru OSHA. THERE IS NO VACCINE LAW. Just a regulatory run mandate from a president who can’t make laws.
Fake news!
That is not what happened...
Barrett was picked because of PC virtue signaling.
What happened, then?
Can you explain?
The SCOTUS simply rejected the special request, as it does for most of the special requests, and said it should stay in the lower courts to address the issue of Constitutionality...
The SCOTUS simply rejected the special request, as it does for most of the special requests, and said it should stay in the lower courts to address the issue of Constitutionality...
Thank you for the clarification. Unfortunately, it is not being reported that way. In addition, the ruling allows NY to continue to trample religious freedoms.
“But of course, none of it’s his fault.”
Hopefully, you hold all Presidents, Senators, Representatives, & the permanent bureaucracies to your standard.
You’ll have plenty of alternative choices in 2024. Which should make you happy.
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