A US federal judge has ruled against the Oklahoma government and a group of soldiers in a lawsuit challenging the military’s vaccination requirements, denying a requested pause on the policy for National Guard troops in the state.
US District Judge Stephen Friot said he would not grant a temporary injunction against the mandate in a decision on Tuesday, arguing the state’s case is “without merit.”
“The vaccine mandate to which the Governor objects is… 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,” the judge said.