Capitol Report (Jan. 14): Congress Hands Out Masks Made In China

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The U.S. Marine Corp. becomes the first branch of the military to grant a religious exemption to the vaccine mandates. The Supreme Court has ruled, and President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for large businesses is no longer in effect. How will this impact Americans moving forward? The U.S. Defense Department is sending additional military medical […]

Maine Health Workers Latest To Take Vaccine Mandate To Supreme Court

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Maine health care workers opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will take the same position a Texas federal court recently took on the Department of Defense’s obligation to approve religious exemptions for active duty veterans. In a brief filed on Jan. 11 on behalf of 2,000 health workers in […]

Puerto Rico Mandates COVID-19 Booster Shots For Students Over Age 12

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Students aged 12 and older are required to get a COVID-19 booster shot in Puerto Rico as the governor of the island nation announced a string of new measures on Thursday targeting public schools, the entertainment sector, and tourism. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, a Democrat, stressed in a series of posts on social media that every […]

In December Justice Roberts Denied A Mask Mandate Case To Be Heard Without Comment, Today Justice Gorsuch Brings The Case In Front Of Entire Court For Discussion

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  Justice Roberts denied the application in December but Justice Gorsuch has decided to bring the topic to the entire court for discussion today. A press release on the Wall vs the TSA noted the following this morning: The U.S. Supreme Court is considering at its conference today a 4-year-old Florida boy’s emergency application to […]

Citigroup Maintains Vaccine Mandate Deadline Despite SCOTUS Ruling

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Citigroup is standing by its Jan. 14 deadline by which it expects employees to be fully vaccinated or receive an approved exemption, the firm’s head of human resources said in a statement, which came as the Supreme Court overturned the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test requirement for large businesses. Sara Wechter, Head of Human Resources at Citi, […]

Military Grants First Religious Exemptions To COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

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The Marine Corps is the first U.S. military branch to grant religious exemptions to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, nearly two months after the vaccination deadline for active-duty Marines. The Marines approved two requests for religious accommodation from the mandate, the branch said in a statement on Thursday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the mandate […]

Businesses Welcome Relief From Supreme Court On Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

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Businesses welcomed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday that ordered a temporary stay on an economy-wide federal requirement that forced them to choose between hefty fines and protecting the personal health care rights of their employees. The U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden’s mandate that all private sector employers with at least 100 workers […]