Tag: Clarence Thomas

High Court Rejects COVID-19 Shot Mandate Case From New York

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High Court Rejects COVID-19 Shot Mandate Case From New York
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons. The court’s action follows a decision in December in which the justices declined an emergency request to halt the requirement. At the time, doctors, nurses and other medical workers who said they were being forced to choose between their jobs and religious beliefs.… Read the rest

Clarence Thomas’ Dissenting Opinion on Vaccines

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Clarence Thomas’ Dissenting Opinion on Vaccines
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas provided a dissenting opinion about COVID-19 vaccines. The case involved 16 New York state health care workers who challenged the state government’s vaccine mandate for people in their line of work. “They object on religious grounds to all available COVID-19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children,” Thomas wrote in his dissent.… Read the rest