The pandemic has revealed a disturbing number of ignorami populating the field of law. Here are judge Stephen Friot’s comments regarding the case:
“The vaccine mandate to which the governor objects is the one — in addition to the nine that already apply to all service members — intended to protect service members from the virus which has, in less than two years, killed more Americans than have been killed in action in all of the wars the United States has ever fought,” Friot wrote. “The court is required to decide the case on the basis of federal law, not common sense. But, either way, the result would be the same.”
It doesn’t appear that Friot is familiar with how many active-duty soldiers have died of COVID over the past twenty months, nor the number who have died of the mRNA vaccine. He really should look into it, I think he’d be very surprised.