D.C. Judge Blocks Biden From Firing Unvaccinated Employees, Active-Duty Military Members

A judge on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Joe Biden from firing several unvaccinated federal employees, including active-duty military members, named in the suit challenging the president’s vaccinate mandate as unconstitutional.

The plaintiffs are seeking religious exemption from the Biden vaccine mandate for federal workers, first formally announced on September 9.

“None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending,” Washington D.C. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered, according to Fox News.

Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling added that “active duty military plaintiffs, whose religious exception requests have been denied, will not be disciplined or separated during the pendency of their appeals.”

Politico and lawyer Jenna Ellis posted the ruling on Twitter on Thursday: “This is an amazing development from the DC District Court in the stand for OUR RIGHTS against the unconstitutional vaccine mandates,” she wrote.

BREAKING: @Yoder_Esq with a HUGE WIN in Church v. Biden.

(Yes, that’s the actual case caption. For those playing along, 1:21-cv-2815)

This is an amazing development from the DC District Court in the stand for OUR RIGHTS against the unconstitutional vaccine mandates. pic.twitter.com/kWus7XQ4pp

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) October 28, 2021

“The court further ordered the defendants in the Biden administration to file a supplemental notice by noon on Friday that indicates whether they will agree that no plaintiff will be disciplined or terminated pending the court’s ruling,” Fox News noted.

Immediately following Biden’s announcement of the vaccine dictate, Mike Yoder, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, made an announcement of his own. “I will be immediately filing suit against [Joe Biden] regarding his [overboard] & unconstitutional vaccine mandate,” he posted to Twitter.

“Your executive order may not be about freedom, but this lawsuit sure as hell is,” Yoder added.

I will be immediately filing suit against @JoeBiden regarding his overbroad & unconstitutional vaccine mandate.

Your executive order may not be about freedom, but this lawsuit sure as hell is

— Mike Yoder (@Yoder_Esq) September 9, 2021

A day before Yoder received the temporary restraining order in his favor, he raged against the mandate online.

“Under Biden, exercising your religious freedoms will get your fired, for cause and you lose your benefits,” he wrote. “But if you perjure yourself like FBI’s Andy McCabe, you’ll get a pension, $200,000 in backpay, & $500,000 worth of attorneys fees.”

In an op-ed, The Hill noted this month that McCabe “settled” with the DOJ, “eliminat[ing] all consequences” for the finding that he lied under oath: “The

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