Fri Mar 25, 2022 – 5:35 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court granted the Biden administration’s request for a partial stay of a preliminary injunction that had barred the administration from considering COVID-19 vaccination status in the deployment and assignment of Navy SEALs.
In January, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor granted a preliminary injunction barring the administration from enforcing the mandate against SEALs with religious objections to the shots, ruling there is “no Covid-19 exception to the First Amendment” and “no military exclusion from our Constitution.” But religious freedom law firm First Liberty alleged the following month that the Navy was subjecting the SEALs to other forms of punishment for their noncompliance.
On Friday, the nation’s highest court stayed that order “insofar as it precludes the Navy from considering respondents’ vaccination status in making deployment, assignment, and other operational decisions,” pending a decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Writing in support of the stay, moderate Trump-appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the District Court had “in effect inserted itself into the Navy’s chain of command, overriding military commanders’ professional military judgments,” flying in the face of the deference historically granted
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