A federal judge on Monday blocked the U.S. Department of Defense from disciplining a group of Navy SEALs and other special forces members who refused COVID-19 vaccines on religious grounds.
Judge Reed O’Connor, the U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of Texas, was acting in response to a lawsuit filed by First Liberty Institute in November on behalf of 35 special forces service members. O’Connor issued a preliminary injunction.
O’Connor issued a preliminary injunction barring the Navy and Defense Department from enforcing the mandate.
The service members had faced a range of military disciplinary actions for refusing the vaccine.
“The Navy service members in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect,” O’Connor wrote in the 26-page ruling. “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.”
The judge noted in his decision that the Navy has not granted a single religious exemption to the vaccine rule.
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SHOUT OUT TO THE JUDGE FOR DOING THIS, ITS WELL NEEDED. LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS DOWN BELOW
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