(The Center Square) — The Memorial Day holiday is a bittersweet time for those who say they still suffer from the Biden administration’s policies that have forced them to between their honest and devoted ideals and serve their country, lawyers representing them in COVID-19 lawsuits over vaccination orders told The Center Square.
This holiday weekend, Steve Crampton, senior attorney for the Thomas More Society, attended his son’s swearing-in rite in the Air Force after completing his fundamental training. The irony of the party is not lost on him, he said. On the one hand, he takes pride in the accomplishments and commitment of his son and others to serve his country. All swore to preserve and protect the U. S. Constitution. UU. de the internal and external threats to the constitutional rights of his military and he won’t even acknowledge that he did it. “
“The hypocrisy of those who run the military and continued discrimination against those with deeply held devout ideals means that other people who need to serve their country are excluded from services,” he told The Center Square.
Memorial Day is a time to “celebrate our freedoms and honor those who sacrificed for those freedoms with their lives,” he said, “but the very establishments we celebrate forget about those freedoms. “
The Thomas More Society sued on behalf of the Air Force Workforce in a case in Georgia and on behalf of the Coast Guard Workforce in a case in Texas. TMS and others filed a lawsuit after their clients submitted requests for devout accommodation (RAR) as exemptions to vaccination orders, requests that were rejected in all branches of the military. Those who presented RAR reported that they refused to take an experimental drug produced from aborted fetal cells because it violated their sincerely held devout beliefs. The lawsuits alleged that the blank downloads from RAR violated the First Religious Freedom Amendment and Restoration Act.
Federal judges presiding over the military’s instances of vaccination orders agreed. Like the U. S. Department of Defense Inspector General. U. S.
The Coast Guard plaintiffs are still awaiting a resolution in their case with a retired three-star vice admiral action.
The lawsuits stem from two orders: a Department of Defense COVID-19 vaccination order for the 4 branches of the U. S. military. A vaccination order for federal workers from the Biden administration affecting the Coast Guard is a U. S. order and vaccination order. They complied, were demoted, retaliated against, and eventually fired. Ultimately, district and appellate judges ruled against court orders across the country. The U. S. Supreme Court The U. S. Supreme Court rescinded the vaccination order for federal workers; Congress forced the DOD to cancel its mandate.
In an Ohio lawsuit filed in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, appellate judges refuted all arguments put forward by the federal government, eliminating any appeal options. They unanimously determined that the Air Force’s overall denial of nearly 10,000 RAR violated RFRA. .
In Florida, when the U. S. District Judge. Steven Merryday bestowed a reputation on elegance on the Marines, saying that “the record is very likely that the Marine Corps will not meet the obligations established through the RFRA. “
In that case, Marines were charged more per month of rent for noncompliance, given two days to be released and ordered to leave their military accommodation, which he said “suggests retaliation and retaliation. “
In Georgia, U. S. Judge Tilman Self, III, said the chain of command reasoning for rejecting a plaintiff’s RAR: “His devout ideals are sincere, they are simply not compatible with military service. “In this case, a plaintiff had less than a week to agree to be vaccinated or apply for retirement, after his RAR rejection appeal was dismissed.
In Liberty Counsel’s Navy SEAL case, he presented “shocking revealing evidence of abuse, intimidation and retaliation facing the military for Biden’s firing order,” adding moves he said were “cruel and rare punishments. “
In a separate situation, after a former Marine rejected the RAR, he was fired and lost his last paycheck. The CMSU then charged him $17,878. 23, the remaining balance of a bond he gave him for his re-enrollment, which he still has to pay.
Last year, more than 60,000 National Guard and Reserve infantrymen were told they would lose their pay, benefits and “adverse administrative measures, adding flags, bans on service and official reprimands,” the U. S. military announced. UU. si complied with the mandate.
Even after the order was rescinded, all 4 branches of the military continued to reject the RARs, according to reports filed in the Liberty Counsel case.
However, others are denied promotions and face ongoing retaliation, Crampton said. “We have great respect for our military and would protect those who threaten their lives for our national security far more than prosecuting them,” he told The Center Square.
After the Defense Department’s mandate was rescinded and the Liberty Counsel case was dismissed, its founder and president, Mat Staver, told The Center Square that they were urging Congress to provide relief: reinstating those who were released, restoring their non-public records, and issuing salaries. arrears, among other things. Remedies.
“Memorial Day is a reminder of the sacrifice those men, women and their families made,” Staver said. fight for them. “