Vaccine mandate

GALVESTON, Texas — A group of active duty and reserve members of the U.S. Coast Guard who were denied religious exemptions from the Defense Department’s vaccine requirement are asking a federal court in Texas to declare the mandate unconstitutional.

In this Aug. 25, 2020 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, an MH-60S Sea Hawk Helicopter conducts “touch and go” drills aboard the Legend-class cutter USCGC Munro in the Pacific Ocean. The Coast Guard cutter Munro had just embarked on a national security mission to patrol the maritime boarder between the United States and Russia in late June 2020, when one of its guardsman was diagnosed with COVID-19. Contract tracing led to more than a dozen other members of the ship's crew being ordered into quarantine for two weeks. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Madysson Anne Ritter/U.S. Navy via AP)

Read the complaint here.

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