Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett side with liberal justices, decline to

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-justices-brett-kavanaugh-030349167.html

In a ruling Friday, the Supreme Court declined to block Maine from requiring vaccine mandates for healthcare workers who object on religious grounds.

Maine requires all healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and does not grant religious exemptions.

A group of healthcare workers sought an emergency order from the Supreme Court that would block the requirement for those with religious objections.

The court voted 6-3, with conservative Justices John Roberts and Trump-appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett siding with the liberal justices.

How about them apples?

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Well, rights is rights, so you celebrate while you can.

[Haggard Celine]

2. Just shows that they have a smidgen of common sense.

If they can make health workers get other shots, why couldn't they make them get Covid shots? And why is this vaccine such a big deal to these health workers? It has nothing to do with religion; it's about politics. Owning the Libs isn't a good enough reason for people to refuse the shots.

[Skittles]

4. or, they want to toss some easy bones

I'm not willing to give those assholes the benefit of the doubt.

[Haggard Celine]

5. Oh, they're terrible. No doubt about that.

Just wait until the decision on the Mississippi abortion case. I have a feeling it's going to be ugly.

[Shrek]

11. The article suggest they weren't really ruling on the merits

Barrett, joined by Kavanaugh in a concurring opinion, briefly remarked on their decision to block the request, citing the fact that the case was brought on the shadow docket, or as an emergency appeal. Shadow docket cases do not involve oral arguments or full rulings that are part of normal cases.

Barrett said the shadow docket should not be used for such a case, and that the court should not make this decision "on a short fuse without benefit of full briefing and oral argument," implying she and Kavanaugh could vote differently if the case came before the court in a different way.

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12. So they wanted to make a big case of it so they

could make a landmark decision on religious rights? I guess they're signaling to the religious nuts that they want to hear those cases about religious people refusing services to gay people and other similar cases. We're going to have to add some seats to the Supreme Court, it looks like. It's that or we have to put up with Kavanaugh and Barrett making a mockery of the Constitution and civil rights. But it's going to be hard to get a Congress that will take that on.

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3. Why would a health care worker object to getting vaccinated?

For ANY reason?

Religious “reasons”?!? Oh for Pete’s sake…

Then they should find another profession.

[DFW]

6. Don't cheer too loudly. They were right, but this was a freebie. It cost them nothing.

Saying "religious" grounds prevent them from trying to provide the best possible health care is so over the top that the 3 Republican justices could easily side with the patients, and not ruffle too many right wing feathers.

The law made no attempt whatsoever to interfere with their religion or their freedom to practice it. It only said their religion couldn't be used as an excuse to endanger the patients whose protection was their primary professional consideration. It's a narrow issue that I think provides the three justices plenty of cover to allow religious discrimination in favor of Christian fanatics in other situations.

Alito and Thomas, as usual, form the core of the faction that believes that no outrage justified on religious grounds goes so far as to exceed the protection thereof by the first amendment. I don't see this as a "win" so much as a case of Opus Dei keeping their powder dry.

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13. This lapsed Catholic agrees. They're playing the long game.

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8. Is the trend that the SC isn't going to block laws anymore?

What does a religious exemption look like? That seems to me to be the problem. And I think that is a problem with all religious exemptions. Believe what you want. But you have to follow the law.

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9. Both a Slippery Slope and

a Pandoras' Box.

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10. This really isn't a left - right issue

But the Right has decided to take it up as theirs.