Similarly to other cases protesting the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Dunn maintained that the denial of accommodation based on his “sincerely held religious belief” was a violation of his rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The president of the United States, not any federal judge, is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.”ĭunn, who until being relieved from command led the 452nd Contingency Response Squadron of the Air Force Reserve, has served in the Air Force for 18 years.
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US Navy SEALS 1-26, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote, “The District Court, while no doubt well-intentioned, in effect inserted itself into the Navy’s chain of command, overriding military commanders’ professional military judgments. Last month, the Supreme Court refused an appeal from a group of Navy SEALs who objected to the vaccine on religious grounds, with the same justices dissenting. Photograph by Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jonathan Dunn’s request for an injunction. Justices Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas indicated that they would have granted Lt.
The current justices of the Supreme Court. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch wrote that they would have granted the injunction. The Supreme Court denied his final request Monday. When his request for a temporary injunction was denied, he appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which also denied his request.
The April 18 ruling followed Dunn’s lawsuit in the District Court for the Eastern District of California, asking for relief from punitive action due to his refusal to get the vaccine on religious grounds.
Jonathan Dunn’s one-word memo got him fired from his command, but his argument to the high court attempted to turn the tables on the idea of a religious exemption, arguing that the vaccine mandate itself had grown into “a religious ritual required as a condition of participating fully in civil society.”Ī string of lower court rulings have given some hope to many service members who have filed lawsuits after seeking exemptions from the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but Monday’s 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court will likely dampen hopes that most of those cases will prevail at the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court handed a second straight defeat to a military member seeking relief from the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, turning away an appeal by an Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel who, when ordered to get vaccinated, sent a memo to his commander that said: “NUTS!”
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