Navy should be held in contempt for violating court order on COVID vaccine exemptions: complaintFox News, Feb 2, 2022
The U.S. Navy is violating a court order by allegedly blocking treatment for a traumatic brain injury and inflicting other forms of punishment on SEALs who requested religious exemptions to the coronavirus vaccine, according to a new legal complaint.
On Jan. 3, a federal court in Texas granted a temporary injunction against the Navy's vaccine mandate after multiple SEALs sued President Biden. Judge Reed O'Connor, in issuing the order, argued that "[t]here is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment" and "[t]here is no military exclusion from our Constitution."
But First Liberty, a religious liberty law firm, alleges in Monday's filing that multiple SEALs continue to encounter a variety roadblocks due to their unvaccinated status.
One of those included a service member, identified as "Navy SEAL 26," who requested permission to travel to a program for traumatic brain injuries. According to the complaint, "multiple high-ranking Naval officers in SEAL 26’s command began calling the treatment center and asking if it would deny treatment to someone who is unvaccinated."
It added that the treatment center wouldn't comply but "the result is that the Navy ran out the clock on SEAL 26’s request again: the treatment center had to give his spot to another patient because SEAL 26 had not been given approval to attend."
Attorneys argued that holding the Navy in contempt was "the only way to prevent continued irreparable injury" to the SEALs.
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