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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Federal judges in Kentucky and Louisiana issued temporary injunctions Tuesday against President Joe Biden’s requirement for federal contractors and health care workers to receive a COVID-19 jab or face penalties.
Kentucky-based U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday afternoon, halting the implementation of Biden’s vaccine mandate for contractors and subcontractors in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio.
The Biden administration ordered in September that federal contractors must have received a full regimen of an abortion tainted COVID shot before December 8 or face losing their jobs with the government, later delaying the deadline to January 4, 2022.
After Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) challenged the Biden administration’s requirement, Van Tatenhove ordered that the federal government be “enjoined from enforcing the vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in all covered contracts in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee.”
The judge prefaced his order by clarifying the narrow confines by which the ruling was determined, stating that the case was neither about whether “vaccines are effective,” nor “whether the government, at some level, and in some circumstances, can require
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