The Supreme Court refused on Friday to block Maine’s vaccine requirement that health care workers get the coronavirus vaccine without any room for religious exemptions.
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The Supreme Court refused on Friday to block Maine’s vaccine requirement that health care workers get the coronavirus vaccine without any room for religious exemptions. The order came from an emergency application and gave no reasoning for their decision. The three conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented, noting the challenge might succeed on the merit that it violates the First Amendment. “As we have seen, Maine has so far failed to present any evidence that granting religious exemptions to the applicants would threaten its stated public health interests any more than its medical exemption already does,” the dissent reads.
