More than 300 court employees protested outside New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore\u2019s Westchester County home Saturday demanding she scrap a COVID-19 vaccination mandate \u2026<\/b>
\nMore than 300 court employees protested outside New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore\u2019s Westchester County home Saturday demanding she scrap a COVID-19 vaccination mandate set for Monday. They chanted \u201cWhat do we want? No mandate. What do we want? Choice.\u201d \u201cWe want to have a choice, get a vaccine or weekly testing like the NYPD,\u201d Dennis Quirk, president of New York State Court Officers Association, said. \u201cIf it is good enough for the cops, it should be good enough for court employees. She is a dictator, she won\u2019t even talk to us.\u201d Quirk received a 30-day suspension in August for posting DiFiore\u2019s home addresses on social media in order to encourage protests outside of her residences. New York City court workers and judges are supposed to be vaccinated by 5 p.m. Monday. A judge Friday issued a temporary stay of the mandate, but it only covered court workers outside of New York City. \u201cCourt employees are free to voice their opinions about administrative decisions, even ones that have led to 13,200 of the system\u2019s 15,600 judges and employees to get vaccinated so far,\u201d said court system spokesman Lucian Chalfen.<\/p>\n