Trump Appointed Judge Blocks Air Force From Enforcing Covid Vaccine Mandate

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US Air Force plans to enforce the covid vaccine mandate were blocked by a federal judge in Ohio on Thursday.

The restraining order means that the military cannot punish those whose applications for a religious exemption was denied or is still being processed.

The Gateway Pundit reports: Trump-appointed Judge Matthew W. McFarland of Ohio’s Southern District granted a temporary restraining order after service members sued the Air Force Secretary to provide religious exemptions to the Covid vaccine according to the American Military News

“McFarland’s ruling grants class status in a class action lawsuit to Airmen, Space Force Guardians, Air National Guardsmen and Air Force Academy and Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) cadets who submitted a religious accommodation request for the vaccine mandate from Sept. 1, 2021, to the present, and who were confirmed by an Air Force Chaplain as having had a sincerely held religious belief, and who either had their requests denied or still-pending accommodations,” the news outlet reported.

“The Court issues a TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER prohibiting Defendants from enforcing the vaccine mandate against any Class Member, to expire 14 days from the entry of this Order,” McFarland wrote in his ruling.

Judge McFarland ordered the Defendants to write a 10-page supplemental brief by July 21, 2022, explaining why he should not extend the temporary restraining order.

Back in April, Judge Matthew McFarland granted an order to block the military temporarily from disciplining 18 U.S. Air Force officers, airmen, and reservists, including 11 who currently or recently served at Wright-Patterson in Dayton, until their lawsuit is resolved.

More from American Military News:

As of the Air Force’s latest vaccination statistics posted Tuesday, 6,803 members were denied religious accommodation requests, while 2,847 requests remain pending, and only 104 were approved. Approximately 2.9% of the Air Force’s entire ranks remain unvaccinated. The service has already kicked out 834 members.

Mat Staver, the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel — a religious freedom organization that has been supporting the Air Force plaintiffs in their lawsuit — said, “This is a great decision that grants protection for the religious freedom for all Air Force personnel from Joe Biden’s unlawful COVID shot mandate.”

“No service member should be required to choose between service to the country and service to God. Liberty Counsel will be pursuing class-wide protection for the remaining branches of the military,” Staver added.

Daniel Schmid, an attorney for Liberty Counsel, told American Military News that Liberty Counsel is aware of service members within the lawsuit class who have begun to receive their separation packages but that no service members in the class have hit their separation dates and that the judge’s order will pause those separations for now.

Schmid also said McFarland’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order is an indicator that the plaintiffs can expect him to grant a longer preliminary injunction soon that could last for the duration of their lawsuit against the Air Force.

14 Comments

  1. I am not sure how all these things work. One judge can block? then another one can unblock?
    What is the process.
    The fact is that mandates are not legal to begin with. They are not laws.
    Executive orders are not legal, and should not be enforceable.
    Experimental medicines can not be force on to the population, that is incredible how they got away with that even for longer than a day.
    People wake up and start hanging these politicians .

    • The entire legal system only applies to us because we’re tricked into consenting to it from birth starting with the birth certificate and socialist security card . It is possible to correct your status as a free man or woman and revoke your citizenship aka slave status

    • Amen! Anything that goes against the US Constitution & Bill of Rights is UNLAWFUL. That includes mandates, requirements, forced medical procedures (tests.vaccines, etc). Our rights are God-given & cannot be taken away by anyone. I pray this is the start of sanity returning & the end of pharma/cabal control. Let the mass arrests begin. Crimes against humanity = executions.

        • Our God-given rights don’t end b/c we go into the military. They cannot be taken away – period. Watch & see how this ends.

          • Our rights have muddle and stepped for over a hundred years. Foreigners have more rights, so do for-profit corporations, government agency, non-profits, and then even elected officials themselves. Where have you been?

  2. We all know the vaccines cause blood clots and heart issues.

    Well, there you go people. The true purpose of the vaccine is revealed: It is a bioweapon with its main target being the US Military.

    China could never defeat the USA in war so they needed to create a fake pandemic and poison our military to even stand a chance against us.

  3. Temporary. Most likely he will be over ruled. But people are dumb now When we were in primary school ages 11, an average IQ was 120 A genius 145, to join MENSA, 100 the dumbest anything below had to go to special school for slow learners. Now 100, I read somewhere is supposed to be average. Dumb and dumber by design.

  4. The “Vaccine” is poison as it causes death. The infant rate is 500% more than 2 years ago because of the Vaccine.

  5. Quote: “As of the Air Force’s latest vaccination statistics posted Tuesday, 6,803 members were denied religious accommodation requests, while 2,847 requests remain pending, and only 104 were approved. Approximately 2.9% of the Air Force’s entire ranks remain unvaccinated. The service has already kicked out 834 members.”
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    They received all other vaccinations, yet refuse the order Covid vaccination. They are a risk for spreading disease. Continue with the phased separation for cause, other than honorable or detonable is fitting.

  6. Most of us know people who got the jab and still were infected with. As the jab is not an effective vaccine, I wonder why the push to force people to take it.

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