Supreme Court won't protect religious freedom, but Navy SEALs never quit

What a difference a day makes. Within twenty-four hours, the United States Supreme Court demonstrated the lengths to which it will go to protect a death row inmate’s religious freedom while declining to protect religious freedom for 35 members of the Naval Special Warfare community.  

The following day, the Supreme Court reached a conclusion in stark contrast to Ramirez. In Austin v. Navy SEALs 1-26, a majority of the court accepted the government’s argument that a lower court order prohibiting it from considering the vaccination status of Navy members might interfere with its ability to carry out its mission—namely, deployment and assignment decisions. Even though the government failed to show the likelihood of such interference, as in Ramirez, a majority of the Court deemed the government’s mere speculation and conjecture sufficient.