Justices won't block vaccine mandate for NY health workers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has refused to halt a COVID-19 vaccine request for wellness attraction workers successful New York that does not connection an exemption for spiritual reasons.

The tribunal acted Monday connected exigency appeals filed by doctors, nurses, and different aesculapian workers who accidental they are being forced to take betwixt their jobs and spiritual beliefs.

Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito dissented.

New York is 1 of conscionable 3 states, on with Maine and Rhode Island, that bash not accommodate wellness attraction workers who entity to the vaccine connected spiritual grounds.

Six weeks ago, the tribunal refused alleviation successful a lawsuit involving healthcare workers successful Maine, Gorsuch said successful a 14-page opinion.

The Associated Press reported that successful the Maine case, the aforesaid 3 justices were successful dissent.

"Today, the Court repeats the mistake by turning distant New York’s doctors and nurses," Gorsuch wrote. "We bash each this adjacent though the State’s enforcement decree intelligibly interferes with the escaped workout of religion—and does truthful seemingly based connected thing much than fearfulness and choler astatine those who harbor unpopular spiritual beliefs."