Judge rules Maine can bar religious exemptions to health care vaccine mandate

Liberty Counsel has already filed an appeal of the ruling in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, so hopefully it will be put on hold. I hope this gets to the SCOTUS ASAP.

fricking political judges are the worst.

And… I know it goes both ways.

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If this is in conflict between different circuits, it is on the way to SCOTUS.

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It certainly seems to be in conflict with the ruling in New York from the other day

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Maine Justice

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First thing that popped in my mind.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

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I really don’t know how more clear one has to be that government on any level is clearly restricted within it’s powers to prohibit one from following their own religious conscience when it comes to injecting a foreign substance into their own bodies.

AND YET, our own Constitution has no power compared to corrupted US district judges who rule by decree rather than by the Constitution (Law Of The Land)

Sick and tired of activist judges.

It's been a while but if I remember the case there were a couple of Native Americans that were denied state benefits because they tested positive for Peyote.

They said that they used Peyote due to their religion and that the state rule conflicted with their 1A rights.

SCOTUS said no (and Scalia wrote it), sorry but the law was basically neutral and just because it made it a little harder for someone to practice their religion it didn't cross the 1A.

Looks like U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the appeal. Today Liberty Counsel filed an emergency injunction pending appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Unfortunately it went to Breyer for review.

LINK

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Liberty Counsel filed an emergency injunction pending appeal (IPA) to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of more than 2,000 health care workers against Governor Janet Mills, health officials of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and five of Maine’s largest hospital systems. The IPA went to Justice Stephen Breyer for review.

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Liberty Counsel is asking the High Court to rule that: 1) Governor Mills will not enforce her unconstitutional mandate so that plaintiff John Doe 1 must force his employees to receive a COVID-19 injection and not provide a religious exemption or accommodation for his employees in violation of his and their sincerely held religious beliefs; 2) Defendants will immediately cease in their refusal to consider, review, and grant plaintiffs’ requests for religious exemption and accommodation from the governor’s “COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate,” provided that plaintiffs agree to abide by reasonable accommodation provisions such as masking, testing, symptom monitoring and reporting; and 3) Defendants will immediately cease threatening to discharge and terminate plaintiffs from their employment for failure to accept a COVID-19 “vaccine” that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs.

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Sick and tired of activist judges.

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Every time there is ruling you Trumpers diagree with, there is an immediate and reactionary cry about activist judges.

What makes this an activist judicial decision?