Federal judge blocks firing of 35 unvaccinated Navy sailors

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : On Monday, US District Judge Reed O'Connor of the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction saying there is 'no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment' and that the pandemic doesn't give the government the license to 'abrogate those freedoms.'
49% : They filed their lawsuit with the help of the First Liberty Institute, a Texas-based Christian legal group that regularly takes on religious liberty cases.
43% : In 2018, O'Connor ruled that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, which compelled citizens to purchase health care or possibly face a monetary penalty, was unconstitutional.
42% : Institute attorney Michael Berry told the Washington Post that Monday's ruling 'sends a clear message to the Biden administration, to the Pentagon and to the Navy that our service members do not give up their religious freedom when they serve their country.'
18% : During the Obama administration, he ruled against gender identity protections for transgender people in the Affordable Care Act and in the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX rules, which allowed trans students to use the bathroom corresponding with their gender identity.

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