Mon Nov 1, 2021 – 4:04 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided on Friday with the Supreme Court’s liberals against healthcare workers fighting Maine’s vaccine mandate.
Healthcare workers had asked the court to “grant extraordinary relief” through the “emergency docket” to block the New England state’s vaccine mandate. But Barrett and Kavanaugh used “discretionary consideration” to block the request.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito, argued to the contrary: “Maine’s rule contains no exemption for those whose sincerely held religious beliefs preclude them from accepting the vaccination. Gorsuch said Maine’s mandate differs from other states which offer religious exemptions.
Gorsuch said the plaintiffs include “a physician who operates a medical practice and eight other healthcare workers” who “served patients on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic with bravery and grace for 18 months now.”
He wants the court to stop enforcement of the mandate until the issue has been sorted out further, because some damage has already been done. “Yet, with Maine’s new rule coming into effect, one of the applicants has already lost her job for refusing to betray her
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