'He is not your commander-in-chief': Texas governor poised for another battle with Biden administrat

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is reigniting the battle against the Pentagon's vaccine mandate, telling National Guardsmen in his state that they will not face punishment for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine.

"Unless President Biden federalizes the Texas National Guard in accordance with Title 10 of the U.S. Code, he is not your commander-in-chief under our federal or state Constitutions," Abbott said in a letter to Texas Adjutant General Tracy Norris. "And as long as I am your commander-in-chief, I will not tolerate efforts to compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine."

On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Abbott's behalf against President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and the military service secretaries saying the federal government is overstepping its bounds by requiring the vaccine when guardsmen are not on active federal duty.

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Abbott joins Republican governors of five other states — Oklahoma, Wyoming, Alaska, Iowa, Mississippi, and Nebraska — in asking the federal government to exempt their guardsmen from the Pentagons' vaccine mandate. Last week, a federal judge in Oklahoma threw out a lawsuit filed by the state's governor challenging the vaccine mandate.

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2. However, it is well-known that Abbott does remain the Commander-In-Grief of the

Texas National Guard.