Last week I witnessed some of my grandkids playing “duck, duck, goose.”
For those no longer familiar with that kid’s game, it involves all the kids sitting in a circle, and then the chasing by the newly identified “goose.” When I saw them playing, the refrain of “duck, duck, duck etc” reminded me of our illustrious Supreme Court.
As I have pointed out many times before, if the Supreme Court had not ducked their responsibility in the aftermath of the 2000 Presidential election, our country would not be in the mess that it is in today. Hopefully the country will not have to depend on SCOTUS after the 2024 election.
Today I read about another SCOTUS “duck.”
From The Epoch Times,
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 13 declined to take up a lawsuit filed by four New Jersey nurses to challenge a now-scrapped state COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The justices will not examine a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed the nurses’ challenge as moot. In the Supreme Court’s list of orders released on Nov. 13, the court rejected an appeal in the case, Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Murphy, Gov. of New Jersey, et al. No comment from the justices was provided.”
The case involved a Covid vaccine mandate by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy. In early 2022, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy issued an executive order that “unvaccinated covered workers must obtain their first dose of the primary series of a COVID-19 vaccination by January 27, 2022,” adding that those workers have to give “adequate proof” they’ve received all their shots by Feb. 28 of that year. Those who do not provide sufficient proof ‘must be considered noncompliant.’
“The nurses—Debra Hagen, Jamie Rumfield, Katie Sczesny, and Mariette Vitti—filed a lawsuit against the governor’s office and said that although the order allowed for religious or medical exemptions, the state “mass-denied religious exemptions in state institutions, stating that accommodating people with religious exemptions would constitute an ‘undue burden’ on the state because the employees with religious objections to the COVID-19 injections are a ‘threat’ to the safety of others.’
“A US. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order that declared their lawsuit moot after the New Jersey mandate has since been rescinded. The nurses then appealed their case to the Supreme Court”
Either what Governor Murphy did was legal or it wasn’t. The fact that “the case is now moot” because his vaccine mandate has been rescinded, is pure and simply a Duck by SCOTUS! When the next pandemic-like illness happens, and it will … we will all have to undergo the same rigamarole that these nurses had to go through, because SCOTUS ducked. When the country has important legal matters to deal with, one would think that SCOTUS would have the balls to step up (with apologies to the female members of the Court). Just like their election case cowardice, assuredly this will come back to bite them.
11/17/23