October 30, 2021
The Supreme Court rejects an injunction request from Maine healthcare workers seeking religious exemptions from the vaccine
By Andrea Widburg
Maine has a regulation requiring large numbers of healthcare workers to get the COVID-19 vaccines or be barred from working. The regulations allow exemptions for medical reasons but refuse them for religious reasons. Eight people who object to the vaccines’ connection to abortion sought an emergency injunction so that they wouldn’t be forced to choose between a vaccine that offends their religious principles or losing their right to practice medicine. Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh joined with the leftists to deny this injunction. In truly insulting fashion, Barrett wrote a short concurrence that is pure legal gibberish.
To understand how nonsensical Barrett’s one-paragraph statement is, it’s worth first reading Justice Gorsuch’s dissent, in which Justices Thomas and Alito joined. After stating the facts, Gorsuch makes some simple, clear points:
A baseline for an injunction is the likelihood of success on the merits. Gorsuch holds out the promise that the petitioners are likely to succeed on the merits because the Maine regulation is deliberately discriminatory against religion, something that manifestly violates the First Amendment.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/the_supreme_court_rejects_an_injunction_request_from_maine_healthcare_workers_seeking_religious_exemptions_from_the_vaccine.html
