The Salt Lake County GOP is pressing Gov. Spencer Cox to exempt Utah National Guard members from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. military members implemented by the Department of Defense.
asking that the vaccine requirement for National Guard members be withdrawn. They argued that unless activated by the president, the National Guard is under the authority of each state’s governor, and therefore the mandate was not applicable.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt made a similar argument in a lawsuit challenging the Pentagon’s mandate seeking to exempt his state’s Guard members. A federal judge, saying service members are already required to get nine vaccinations to serve. “The vaccine mandate to which the governor objects is the one — in addition to the nine that already apply to all service members — 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,” U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot. “The court is required to decide the case on the basis of federal law, not common sense. But, either way, the result would be the same.
In his letter to Cox, Null urged Cox to take a stand against the mandate, even if it resulted in the loss of federal funding. “The impact to their families, our state and national defense, from losing so many service members over an unconstitutional mandate would be devastating. The feedback from the public has been overwhelmingly in support of our Utah National Guard. We remain optimistic that Gov. Cox will join us and other states to defend those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms,” Null said in a text message Thursday afternoon.
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