SCOTUS Rejects COVID Shot Mandate Cases for Troops

The Supreme Court declines to hear cases from Air Force personnel like Poffenbarger and Doster, who sought back pay and religious rights after Biden's DoD vaccine mandate booted them from service in 2021. Roughly 17,000 service members refused the shot, citing First Amendment protections and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but lower courts dismissed the suits as moot once the mandate ended in 2023. Read more about this...