Fri Oct 29, 2021 – 3:31 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration indicated Friday it will not commit to holding off on firing military members and civilian federal employees seeking religious exemptions from mandatory COVID-19 vaccination at least until their case is fully adjudicated, despite a Thursday order to that effect by Washington, D.C., District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.
“None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending,” reads the order obtained by Fox News. Kollar-Kotelly, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997, also asked the administration to confirm in writing, by noon Friday, that “active duty military plaintiffs, whose religious exception requests have been denied, will not be disciplined or separated during the pendency of their appeals.”
On Friday, the White House responded with a statement suggesting the plaintiffs’ fears are baseless: “It is Plaintiffs’ burden to demonstrate impending irreparable harm … but Plaintiffs offer nothing beyond speculation to suggest that their religious exception requests will be denied and that they will be disciplined at all, much less on the first day that such discipline is theoretically possible.”
In fact, the administration’s
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