Wed Oct 12, 2022 – 2:18 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block yet another local COVID-19 vaccine mandate, declining to offer national clarity on the issue even as another ruling may render this particular case moot.
New York City’s Democrat leaders have left the vaccine mandate for municipal workers in place despite ending the private employer mandate effective November 1, resulting in the firing of scores of public workers.
NYPD Detective Anthony Marciano, who is unvaccinated but has natural immunity from prior infection, filed a lawsuit against the mandate after his request for a religious exemption was denied, noting that “the City has denied 99% of all religious and medical exemptions for municipal workers.”
His petition to the Supreme Court was initially rejected by left-wing Justice Sonia Sotomayor but later granted by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas. However, the Epoch Times reports that at least five justices ultimately decided not to grant an injunction. The Court did not explain its reasoning, or reveal how the individual members voted.
However, in a separate case late last month brought by the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), the largest law-enforcement union in the
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