The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected challenges brought by a group of Christian doctors and nurses and an organization that promotes vaccine skepticism to New York's refusal to allow religious exemptions to the state's mandate that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Acting in two cases, the justices denied emergency requests for an injunction requiring the state to permit religious exemptions while litigation over the mandate's legality continues in lower courts. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have granted the injunction.
The state has said that under the policy employers can consider religious accommodation requests and employees can be reassigned to jobs such as remote work. In a dissent in that case, Gorsuch said the mandate seemed based "on nothing more than fear and anger at those who harbor unpopular religious beliefs." Joined by Alito, Gorsuch chastised the court for not protecting the challengers, saying that it "is always the failure to defend the Constitution's promises that leads to this court's greatest regrets."
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