January 21, 2024 - Proponents of the military vaccine mandate routinely argue that service members already receive up to two dozen injections when they sign up to protect their country. This is true. However, the majority of these vaccinations have been approved and in use for decades while typically covering illnesses presenting a far more significant risk to the servicemember population. Given the relatively low risk of COVID to our young troops, who currently face a case fatality rate of 0.03 percent, there does not appear to be a compelling governmental interest in forcing such mandates. If one is interested in ensuring force levels remain stable and threat deterrence capabilities remain intact, enacting policies that could significantly reduce the overall number of our best combat soldiers is foolish and destructive. ... The destructive nature of the Biden administration’s OSHA vaccine mandate on private businesses is all-encompassing.

Miller described the treatment ... between a lawful and unlawful order,” he said. Miller, like others who oppose the mandate, believes that the mandate is unlawful. He said that even though there are legitimate reasons ...

July 9, 2024 - “Our Coast Guard exists to safeguard and serve the American public, to rescue those in distress, stop illegal drug trafficking and protect our environment,” he stated. “How are we to continue to do that well if we can’t trust our own leadership? The COVID shot mandate debacle is just one instance of many, as to why the efforts of the Declaration of Military Accountability are so important for the integrity of our military to our nation.” Readers can sign the petition there, in support of 231 service members and veterans who originally signed the declaration. “Is there any chance Congress will hold someone accountable for the unlawful mandate and its ridiculous implementation?” Coppin asked. Coast Guard Office of FOIA and Privacy (CG-6P) didn’t respond to requests by WND for comment about the status of Coppin’s request. Content created by the WND News Center is available for re-publication without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience.

February 27, 2023 - Subcommittee members will address ... they argued was an unlawful order requiring them to take an experimental drug or be discharged, and who claimed the DOD COVID-19 vaccine mandate violated their sincerely held religious beliefs and their ...

August 22, 2022 - Sigoloff, a family medicine osteopath, contends that the vaccine mandate is unlawful because military healthcare providers are administering the Pfizer vaccine authorized for emergency use, rather than the brand-named Comirnaty product that ...

In his 20-page order temporarily halting the inoculation mandate for some 3.5 million federal employees, Brown wrote Biden likely lacked the power to single-handedly require the jab for “civilian federal employees.” Brown’s ruling specifically cites Biden’s Sept. 9 executive order mandating the shots for federal employees. It does not mention Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Aug. 25 order requiring the vaccine for military service members. Brown, who is based in Galveston, wrote his order was not meant to discourage vaccination efforts. He endorsed the need for Americans to get the shots. “It is instead about whether the president can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment,” Brown wrote. “That, under the current state of the law as just recently expressed by the Supreme Court, is a bridge too far.” ·

February 17, 2023 - The complaint alleges that Austin ... unconstitutional and unlawful ab initio because it mandates the injection of unlicensed, experimental products without informed consent, namely, the mRNA COVID-19 therapeutics developed by ...

December 10, 2025 - Greg Abbott, one of seven Republican governors to challenge the mandate, sued the Biden administration over the requirement, arguing that it was "unlawful" for the Pentagon to try to override his authority of the state's Guard members.

December 1, 2023 - On 10 January 2023, the Secretary of Defense complied with that directive and officially rescinded the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The memo states that “no individuals currently serving in the Armed Forces shall be separated solely ...

In February 2022, the plaintiffs won their first major victory against the military’s vaccine mandate when a U.S. District Court in Texas barred the Navy from dismissing personnel who declined the vaccine on religious grounds. The court argued the mandate violated the RFRA and the First Amendment ...

July 9, 2025 - In a landmark reversal for thousands of impacted troops, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth officially declared the Department of Defense's COVID-19 vaccine mandate unlawful on April 24, 2025, directing the Pentagon to begin reversing disciplinary ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to halt the Biden Administration’s unlawful vaccine mandate imposed on the Texas Army National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. The Texas Governor, not the President nor any federal military official, possesses the power to direct disciplinary actions for any non-federalized Texas Guardsmen. This latest example of federal overreach threatens to undermine the Governor’s chain of command, blur the lines of accountability, and result in terminations or resignations that would hollow out the Texas National Guard and put all Texans at risk. “The Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard are not governed by President Biden, and their orders do not come from the President,” Attorney General Paxton said. “The Governor of Texas is the commander-in-chief of this military establishment.

January 29, 2025 - § 2000bb-1; the import and implementation of Congress’ recission of the vaccine mandate through the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023 NDAA), Pub. L. 117-263, 136 Stat. 2395, § 525 (2022); the abrupt conversions of the Coast Guardsmen’s noticed disciplinary discharges for alleged violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to administrative separations for the convenience of the government; and · whether the Coast Guardsmen were improperly denied certain procedural rights associated with their separations (e.g., administrative discharge boards, reenlistment boards, military counsel, separation pay, pre-separation medical treatment). Citing their unlawful separations, plaintiffs sought retroactive reinstatement with constructive back pay and benefits consistent with the Military Pay Act, 37 U.S.C.

December 3, 2021 - The lawsuit emerges as the latest development in an ongoing fight between state leaders and the federal government as Gov. Kevin Stitt has pushed back on the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the military that would apply to the Oklahoma National Guard. More: Dark money group targets Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt with Fox News ads · O'Connor is asking for the federal mandate to be declared unconstitutional. He also is seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent the mandate from being enforced while litigation moves forward. “Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate ensures that many Oklahoma National Guard members will simply quit instead of getting a vaccine, a situation that will irreparably harm Oklahomans’ safety and security,” O'Connor said in a statement. “These patriots, along with many federal employees, who serve their country and their state are now at risk of being terminated because they do not wish to take the vaccine.” ·