Federal judge reaffirms his decision upholding St. Elizabeth's COVID-19 vaccine mandate

[TexasTowelie]

A federal judge in Covington has rejected a request to reconsider his decision upholding St. Elizabeth Healthcare’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

In an order filed Thursday, a day before a deadline for employees to be vaccinated or receive a medical or religious exemption, U.S. District Judge David Bunning said the claims raised by attorneys for employees who have fought the mandate “clearly did not merit injunctive relief.”

Bunning again emphasized that a 1905 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which upheld a Massachusetts smallpox vaccination law, supported his decision.

Bunning also addressed the accusation in the employees’ motion for reconsideration that he had adopted “the political position of the left” when he referred to the COVID-19 pandemic as an “unprecedented global pandemic.”

Read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2021/10/01/judge-reaffirms-ruling-upholding-st-elizabeths-vaccine-mandate/5946358001/

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1. This federal judge is the son of former Republican Senator Jim Bunning, so hardly a leftist, LOL.

He also was the judge who presided over the Kim Davis trial. I read the transcripts of it, and the part that always sticks out in my mind is when he tried to gently educate her on following the law of the land and how he explained that he had to often set aside his own Catholic beliefs to ensure that he was doing that.