Joe Biden’s Department of Defense (DOD) is acting like it is above the law. But this lawlessness will have to answer to the court in our class action lawsuit, Navy SEAL 1 v. Biden. Read on to learn what we found and what happens next in the fight to free our military heroes from Biden’s unlawful shot tyranny.

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In November, I was in a federal court where attorneys for Joe Biden’s Department of Justice told the court that no adverse action would be taken against any of our clients who requested religious exemptions.

The judge relied upon that representation and withheld an injunction against the military. But the judge ordered the military to begin reporting to the court every two weeks beginning January 7, 2022, on how it is handling the religious exemptions.

The judge put the Biden DOD under the microscope so that one of two things would happen: (1) Either the DOD would voluntarily grant religious exemptions or (2) the DOD would continue to deny them and the judge would order the DOD to grant them in accordance with the law.

It appears the Biden DOD is choosing option 2. WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL WE RESTORE FREEDOM FOR OUR MILITARY HEROES.

Instead of taking this order as a generous warning to fall in line, Team Biden has apparently decided they have six weeks to abuse the law and our soldiers as much as possible before reporting begins!

But thanks be to God, what Joe Biden’s minions have sought to do in the shadows is coming to light … and I don’t think the judge will be very pleased with what we’ve caught Biden’s military doing.

As you know, Liberty Counsel is representing service members against Biden’s shot mandates. Each of our clients has submitted, and been refused, their rightful and legal religious exemption to the COVID shots. In fact, Biden’s DOD has not approved any of the more than 16,000 religious exemptions it has received … and now, despite their promises to the judge, the military is punishing our clients.

John* has been relieved of his regular duties. This lieutenant colonel is confined to an empty office every day. There is no phone or computer, just an empty desk and white walls to stare at as he waits for his shift to pass. Superior officers regularly check in to ensure John is not actually doing anything. This is psychological torture mimicking imprisonment, meant to break the mind and spirit of the soldier.

Frank* is a colonel stationed at a highly visible base in the West. Every morning, he and his fellow vaccination “refusers” are forced to perform what is intended to be a “walk of shame.” Frank and the members are publicly paraded before the other troops, then taken behind a building facing the busiest road through the base to have their nasal passages deeply swabbed in full view of every one of the hundreds of people passing by them. This is a psychological tactic meant to shame and demean resisters into compliance.

Janine* was just given her first battalion command as a lieutenant colonel after spending 24 years—including nine combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan—flying the dangerous aircraft-refueling planes that keep our fighting air wings fueled. Janine has now been stripped of her command and has been told that regardless of what happens with her religious exemption, her military career is over whether she likes it or not. Because she refuses the shots, she has been labeled “unfit.”

George* is a major in the Marine Corps. He, too, has been informed that no matter what happens, his career with the military he loves and has served so well for years is over. He and his fellow service men and women have been harassed and abused, and have had their legal rights violated and denied as they have sought to serve God while in military service.

But these stories of abuse are not all! Liberty Counsel has received a leaked Air Force memo instructing Air Force commanders on how to rewrite past documents so as to hide the military’s unlawful religious exemption denials!

On November 24, 2021, just two days after the judge placed the military under a microscope concerning religious exemption procedures, a Major in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (aka military attorneys, or JAG) sent out a memo instructing the chain of command to rewrite documents in order to alter job descriptions and evaluations after the fact, creating the impression that religious exemptions had been rightfully denied.

The JAG gave additional instructions as to a number of punishments and coercion tactics that should be used in an effort to compel members into abandoning their religious exemptions.

This leaked memo, along with the latest testimony of abuse and recriminations from our clients, is likely to be VERY bad news for Team Biden when we return to federal court.

Regardless of Biden’s abuse and illegal action, these fine men and women we represent will continue serving God. U.S. Marine Major George writes:

“If our service and sacrifice mean nothing to the leaders in those key positions, that is between them and God. But our service and sacrifice for freedom up until now means nothing if we surrender to evil instead of standing for freedom. So, whoever may judge me, I will stand before God and men, with my conscience clear and my honor clean.”

What an honor to defend these brave men and women who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedom! Please help us defend their freedom.

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Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

*Names changed to protect privacy.

Sources:

“Military under a Microscope and Federal Employees Entitled to Religious Exemption - Liberty Counsel.” n.d. Lc.org. Accessed December 1, 2021. lc.org/newsroom/details/112221-military-under-a-microscope-and-federal-employees-entitled-to-religious-exemption-1.

“Resources & Research.” Liberty Counsel, 2021. LC.org/vaccine.