The Supreme Court has dismissed a push from a group of hospital workers in Massachusetts who tried to argue that their facility’s vaccine mandate for employees violates their religious freedom.
Justice Stephen Breyer, who overseas appeals from this region of the United States, declined the request from the workers without asking for a response from the hospital or sending the case on to the Supreme Court to see. NBC News reported that this is a sign that Justice Breyer felt that the case lacked merit.
This came after staffers at Mass General Brigham who were either fired or placed on leave for refusing to get the jab against COVID-19 applied for an emergency stay. They had already tried to get religious or medical exemptions, but their applications were turned down. They then filed their lawsuit, claiming that the hospital was breaking discrimination laws with its mandate.
Mass General Brigham announced back in June that it would force all staffers to get vaccinated, setting up committees that would review requests from staffers for religious or medical objections. Court documents show that about half of the employees who applied for these exemptions were ultimately given them.
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In their emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, the employees said that the hospital “is already accommodating hundreds of other employees conclusively refutes respondent’s mere assertions that it would cause an undue hardship to accommodate ‘further exemptions’ or ‘additional unvaccinated employees.'”
“Applicants face the continuing inability to feed their children, the continuing loss of any practical ability to work in their professions, constant potential homelessness, and continuing significant emotional and psychological harm,” the emergency application continued, according to Mass Live.
“This Court is presented now with a different shade of religious and disability discrimination under the guise of ‘undue hardship,’ namely a refusal to recognize and accommodate sincerely held religious beliefs and real disabilities contra the COVID-19 vaccines,” the application stated. “This case presents the issue of an employer’s claiming undue hardship in accommodating Applicants while at the very same time accommodating other employees.”
The application also stated that this mandate could cost employees their jobs in the healthcare field at a time when our society needs workers in this field the most.
“Applicants’ having to seek new healthcare employment while explaining their prior terminations and ongoing litigation could effectively prevent them from working in health care in the Commonwealth,” the application states. “Granting Applicants’ requested injunction will enable them to return to work…or at least communicate to other healthcare employers that (Mass General Brigham’s) is likely unlawful.”
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so all the liberal left wing extremist dems just decided to toss the constitution and didnt bother telling the rest of the nation? There needs to be hell to pay for these courts not honoring the constitution. so i can only imagine when the politicians are pulled out into the streets tared and feathered most judges will be too. good to know.
Tared and feathered?? I think hanging is called for in this case.
This is against our God-given rights, the US Constitution, Bill of Rights & the Nuremberg Code. Is the military our only hope as it seems our SCOTUS is also corrupt. Sooooo many swamp creatures in every area of our world.
Take the house & senate back; Finish the wall; no $ or help of any kind or health care for illegal persons; English language only; teach US history and Constitution in schools; audit the Fed Reserve; no visas of any kind except merit visas, revert to back our $ with gold, cancel the security clearances for all Obama, Biden hold overs and RINO’s & get rid of them; voting with photo ID only, NO MAIL-IN voting, NO SAME DAY VOTING REGISTRATION AND VOTING; no doing any business with China; do not use dominion HAMMER computer and scorecard software in future voting; seize all bank accounts belonging or affiliated with George Soros’ Open Society Foundations; stop the resettlement of illegals around the USA; Do not get the VAX; Stop promoting CRT; This is my opinion.