Mon Aug 2, 2021 – 6:03 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Biden administration’s recent decree that federal workers who decline a COVID-19 vaccine will be subject to regular coronavirus testing and a host of other restrictions is a “threat to civil liberties” and a violation of federal law, says former Trump administration civil rights official Roger Severino.
“Those Federal employees and onsite contractors who are not fully vaccinated or decline to provide their vaccination status must wear a mask, physically distance, and comply with a weekly or twice-weekly screening testing requirement, and are subject to Government-wide restrictions on official travel,” according to a July 29 announcement from President Joe Biden’s Safer Federal Workforce Task Force.
“The goal of the requirement, Biden aides have said, is to render being unvaccinated so burdensome that those who haven’t received shots will have little choice other than to get them,” CNN reported. The announcement has received a negative reception from federal employee unions “representing federal law enforcement officers, IRS managers and members of the U.S. Border Patrol, among others.”
This “vindictive” policy is “flatly unlawful,” argued Severino, the former director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in
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