Supreme Court Says Pentagon Doesn’t Have to Deploy Unvaccinated SEALs
March 26, 2022 | District of Columbia
The Supreme Court on Friday issued a partial stay of a lower court’s injunction which blocks the Navy from deploying unvaccinated active U.S. military members who refused to get COVID-19 shots.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Smuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the order granting a partial stay.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence on why he supported the Pentagon request:
“I concur in the Court’s decision to grant the Government’s application for a partial stay of the District Court’s preliminary injunction for a simple overarching reason: Under Article II of the Constitution, the President of the United States, not any federal judge, is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. In light of that bedrock constitutional principle, ‘courts traditionally have been reluctant to intrude upon the authority of the Executive in military and national security affairs.'”… (Excerpt from Newsmax)
