{"id":1353549,"date":"2022-03-01T21:38:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T02:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353549"},"modified":"2022-03-01T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T02:38:35","slug":"fifth-circuit-upholds-injunction-for-navy-seals-challenging-dod-vaccine-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fifth-circuit-upholds-injunction-for-navy-seals-challenging-dod-vaccine-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Circuit Upholds Injunction for Navy SEALs Challenging DOD Vaccine Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffifth-circuit-upholds-injunction-for-navy-seals-challenging-dod-vaccine-mandate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353549&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/SEALS-117063280-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Monday evening sided with 35 Navy SEALs and denied the Navy\u2019s petition for an emergency stay of an injunction preventing the Department of Defense from punishing them over their religious objections to the vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy had asked the Fifth Circuit to stay a preliminary injunction granted in January by a federal court in Texas to the 35 Navy SEALs who sued the Department of Defense over the vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A three-judge panel rejected the Navy\u2019s petition, writing in their <a href=\"https:\/\/firstliberty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/SEALS.5th-Circuit.Order-Denying-Stay.2022.02.28.pdf\">opinion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Navy has not accommodated any religious request to abstain from any vaccination in seven years, and to date it has denied all religiously based claims for exemption from COVID-19\u2026 . But evidence\u2026suggests that the Navy has effectively stacked the deck against even those exemptions supported by Plaintiffs\u2019 immediate commanding officers and military chaplains.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Considering the record as a whole, we agree with the district court that Defendants have not shown a compelling interest to deny religious accommodations to each of these 35 Plaintiffs. Indeed, the \u2018marginal interest\u2019 in vaccinating each Plaintiff appears to be negligible; consequently, Defendants lack a sufficiently compelling interest to vaccinate Plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mike Berry, director of military affairs for First Liberty Institute, who is representing the Navy SEALs, said in a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Events around the world remind us daily that there are those who seek to harm America. Our military should be welcoming service members, not forcing them out because of their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The purge of religious servicemembers is not just devastating to morale, but it harms America\u2019s national security. It\u2019s time for our military to honor its constitutional obligations and grant religious accommodations for service members with sincere religious objections to the vaccine. We\u2019re grateful the Fifth Circuit denied the Navy\u2019s motion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>First Liberty said the SEALs collectively have more than 350 years of military service and more than 100 combat deployments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen they inquired about seeking religious accommodation for the vaccine, the Navy informed many of the plaintiffs that they could face court-martial or involuntary separation if they don\u2019t receive the vaccine. Each of their religious accommodation denials appear to be identical, suggesting the Navy is not taking their requests seriously,\u201d the institute said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Navy also warned some of the plaintiffs that if they sought a religious exemption, the Navy would confiscate their Special Warfare devices\u2014such as the famous SEAL \u2018Trident\u2019 \u2014 that they proudly wear on their uniforms,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration ordered a vaccine mandate for all service members in August and so far, more than 1,000 service members who have not complied have been discharged.<\/p>\n<p>There are potentially tens of thousands more service members who may be discharged.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced a bill that would reinstate discharged service members and prohibit any punishment for those who are still serving, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/08\/exclusive-rep-chip-roy-introduces-bill-to-reinstate-troops-discharged-over-vaccine-mandate\/\">first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Monday evening sided with 35 Navy SEALs and denied the Navy\u2019s petition for an emergency stay of an injunction preventing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}