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By Jack Phillips
October 29, 2021 Updated: October 29, 2021
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A district court judge in Washington, D.C. issued a temporary injunction
Thursday that bars both civilian and military plaintiffs from being fired after
they filed a lawsuit against the White House’s vaccine mandate.

District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, an appointee of former President Bill
Clinton, issued a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction
prohibiting preventing the plaintiffs from being fired while their religious
exemption requests to the COVID-19 vaccine are pending.

“None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while
his or her request for a religious exception is pending,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote
in an order, dated Thursday.

The judge also ruled that “active duty military plaintiffs, whose religious
exception requests have been denied, will not be disciplined or separated during
the pendency of their appeals,” noting that the federal government has provided
“no guarantee of what will happen … if their exemption requests are denied.”

Defendants named in the lawsuit, including all Biden administration executive
branch secretaries, have to issue supplemental memos by Friday that say they
will not terminate or penalize staff while religious exemptions are being heard,
Kollar-Kotelly also ruled.

President Joe Biden and members of his administration were sued by 20 plaintiffs
last month over his Sept. 9 executive order requiring vaccines for all federal
employees and contractors, reported Fox News.

In their complaint, the plaintiffs wrote that “plaintiffs along with hundreds of
thousands of other federal employees and active-duty service members will be
terminated, discharged or separated on or before November 22, 2021.”

“The Biden administration has shown an unprecedented, cavalier attitude toward
the rule of law and an utter ineptitude at basic constitutional contours,” the
plaintiffs’ attorney Michael Yoder told the network after Kollar-Kotelly’s
ruling.

Describing this mandate as “dangerous to American liberty,” Yoder said that “our
Constitution protects and secures the right to remain free from religious
persecution and coercion.”

Similarly, he praised Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling and said that “we are one step
closer to putting the Biden administration back in its place by limiting
government to its enumerated powers. It’s time citizens and courts said no to
tyranny. The Constitution does not need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread.”

Biden’s announcement on vaccine mandates across different sectors of society
drew significant criticism, leading to lawsuits from several states over the
requirements.

Ahead of the mandate’s deadline, several trade associations—including cargo
carriers and truckers groups—issued warnings to the Biden administration that
vaccine mandates would snarl supply chain bottlenecks and trigger chaos
nationwide.

The Washington court order came as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican,
announced that his state filed a lawsuit against the White House over its
vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

The Epoch Times has contacted the White House press office for comment.

Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.

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