{"id":1356329,"date":"2022-03-03T08:24:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356329"},"modified":"2022-03-03T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:38:12","slug":"vaccine-mandates-for-navy-seals-remain-blocked-by-u-s-court-of-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vaccine-mandates-for-navy-seals-remain-blocked-by-u-s-court-of-appeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Mandates for Navy Seals Remain Blocked by U.S. Court of Appeals"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fvaccine-mandates-for-navy-seals-remain-blocked-by-u-s-court-of-appeals%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=1356329&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\/US-NEWS-CORONAVIRUS-VACCINES-MILITARY-GET-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A federal appeals court denied the Biden administration\u2019s attempt to reinstate the U.S. Navy\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine requirement Monday, more than a month after a federal judge in Fort Worth initially halted the mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate, which required all active-duty Navy service members to be fully vaccinated by Nov. 28, is being challenged by a group of U.S. Navy SEALs and other Naval special warfare personnel. The group says the mandate violates their religious freedom and that they have unjustly been denied religious exemptions from receiving the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Their lawsuit is against President Joe Biden, the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>In early January, U.S. District Judge Reed O\u2019Connor of the Northern District of Texas signed a preliminary injunction blocking the mandate while the case reaches a final judgment.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the Department of Defense\u2019s emergency stay request, which would have allowed the mandate to go into effect as the case goes through courts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Evidence] suggests that the Navy has effectively stacked the deck against even those exemptions supported by Plaintiffs\u2019 immediate commanding officers and military chaplains,\u201d the three-judge panel said.<\/p>\n<p>First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit interest law firm based in Plano, is representing the SEALs and other personnel in the suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur military should be welcoming service members, not forcing them out because of their religious beliefs,\u201d said Mike Berry, director of military affairs for First Liberty Institute.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><em>\u00a9 2022 Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/em>\n<em>Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC<\/em><\/pre>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court denied the Biden administration\u2019s attempt to reinstate the U.S. Navy\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine requirement Monday, more than a month after a federal judge in Fort Worth initially<\/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-1356329","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\/1356329","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=1356329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356329\/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=1356329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}