US Court orders Biden to temporarily suspend vaccine mandate against citizens seeking religious exemptions during pending suit 

A court in the United States (US) issued an order restraining the US President, Joe Biden, from enforcing vaccine mandate on citizens seeking religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines, while such suit is pending in the court of law.

Apparently, a district court judge in Washington DC last Thursday issued a minute order requiring the Biden administration to guarantee that the government will not terminate the appointment of a civilian and active-duty military plaintiffs while awaiting a judgement on a pending suit in court against the administration on religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines.

A minute order from District Judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, was cited to have read: “None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending.”

The Biden administration, at noon on Friday, had responded in a filing that the administration would not agree to halt the discipline and termination of any employee in the process of seeking a religious exemption to the covid vaccine, pending court’s ruling on the temporary restraining order (TRO) motion.

The Biden administration had stated in its filing on Friday: “It is Plaintiffs’ burden to demonstrate impending irreparable harm…but Plaintiffs offer nothing beyond speculation to suggest that their religious exception requests will be denied and that they will be disciplined at all, much less on the first day that such discipline is theoretically possible.”

The District Judge also on Thursday ordered the Biden administration to agree that “active-duty military plaintiffs, whose religious exception requests have been denied, will not be disciplined or separated during the pendency of their appeals.”

The judge further ordered the defendants in the Biden administration to file a supplemental notice by noon on Friday that indicates whether they will agree that no plaintiff will be disciplined or terminated pending the court’s ruling, or else another briefing will be scheduled.

Source: FOX News