High court rejects COVID-19 shot mandate case from New York

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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.

Three conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — dissented earlier and did so again Thursday.

New York is one of three states, along with Maine and Rhode Island, that do not accommodate health care workers who object to the vaccine on religious grounds.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/high-court-rejects-covid-19-150417852.html

They probably wanted to get home early.

[Dorian Gray]

1. I think it would have bene on the docket for next year

I'm glad they rejected it though. They haven't done much I've appreciated in the last week, so I'll take one win where I can. (Furious about so many of the decisions.)

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Remember States Rights?

That was before the Republicans packed the Court.

[multigraincracker]

3. My Church requires a shot to attend in person.

Be fun to see what the Court would say about that.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Nothing.

Your church is not a state actor (at least not yet), so it can impose whatever requirements it wants.

[multigraincracker]

6. That is only for attending in person.

They went on Zoom at the start of covid.

[Ms. Toad]

7. Still doesn't change anything -

The church can dictate that anyone attending in person turn cartwheels on the lawn before entering, drink codliver oil, donate half of their money to the churcy, or have COVID vaccinations - and the Supreme Court can't do anyhing to help members who don't want to do those things.

[Ms. Toad]

4. Any grant of cert would have been for the fall term -

so they still would have recessed at the same time, even if they had agreed to hear it.