Feds for Medical Freedom, FBI Employees, File Suit Against Garland and Justice Department for Violating Religious Liberties

HOUSTON, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Feds for Medical Freedom has filed its second lawsuit this year seeking to hold government agencies and their leadership accountable for religious discrimination based on the persecution of workers with religious beliefs against vaccination for COVID-19. Feds for Med Freedom et al v. Merrick Garland et al, filed in the Southern District of Texas, was brought forward by over three dozen employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The suit details instances of persecution and harassment, unanswered requests for religious accommodations, and, in some cases, termination of employees. A similar suit was filed in March on behalf of State Department employees. 

Feds for Medical Freedom, a grassroots group of over 9,000 federal employees and contractors who believe strongly the government does not have the legal or moral right to force Americans to get vaccinated in violation of their sincerely held religious beliefs, has already achieved significant victories in court. In 2022, a federal judge in Texas overseeing the case of Feds for Med Freedom v. Biden put an injunction on the federal vaccine mandate. In March of 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals again ruled in their favor, upholding the injunction. President Biden made the decision to drop the mandate entirely earlier this month, but Feds for Med Freedom President Marcus Thornton said the damage has already been done for those who suffered through hostile work environments and wrongful terminations.