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Originally posted by Prefontaine:


Same here. They gave us an option of getting a Covid test, EVERY DAY, as an alternative. And if you go that route, it’s on your dime etc. So essentially it was as you stated, get it or get fired.

That was extreme!

I had to take and report my temperature twice per day. Prior to each and every flight I had to certify I had no symptoms and was not ill. This required going online and doing a digital signature. I was effectively barred from the company offices and crew rooms at airports.

The stupid part is that every airline pilot has always been required to self-certify he is fit to fly each and every flight, though there was no reporting required. If a crew member is not fit to fly, he is required to remove himself from the flight.

We had a mask mandate in the cockpit that was both annoying and stupid.

OLD THREAD ALERT!

A Biden-appointed federal judge has ruled the Trump administration may not change the childhood vaccine schedule or appoint new members of the vaccine advisory committee
The ruling is stunning judicial overreach. It is not even clear how the plaintiffs have standing to sue (that is, how they can say these changes harmed them directly).

Alex Berenson

BREAKING: Federal judge Brian E. Murphy this afternoon issued a preliminary injunction effectively finding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, may not lighten the childhood vaccine schedule.

Murphy, appointed by President Biden in 2024, also essentially stopped Kennedy from appointing his own preferred members to the federal vaccine advisory committee.

Make no mistake, Murphy has taken a breathtakingly aggressive stance on his powers as a federal judge. The injunction effectively takes the position that Murphy — a random federal judge — has the right to set American vaccine policy, while the executive branch does not.

The preliminary injunction blocks both the new members of the committee and the January 2026 changes to the recommended schedule, such as removing the Hepatitis B shot for newborns.

While it is not a final judgment, the finding strongly suggests Murphy will make a similar final finding in the future in the underlying lawsuit over Kennedy’s attempts to change the vaccine schedule.

In the ruling, Murphy complained that Kennedy had made the changes to the vaccine schedule “without sufficient explanation” and acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” way.

Murphy similarly objected to Kennedy’s decision to replace the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the federal body that advises the Centers for Disease Control on vaccines.

https://alexberenson.substack....rue&utm_medium=email

^^^ What fucking balls! These judges are truly out of control.

The Star Chamber?

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Originally posted by 6guns:
^^^ What fucking balls! These judges are truly out of control.

Bought and paid-for is more like it.

The psychopathy runs deep in the ranks. Last 40 years we have been letting the lunatics run the asylum. It only stops when people start to realize the kind of rampant fuckery currently manipulating policy.

That judge should be told quite directly (and publicly!) to FUCK OFF!

This same judge Murphy temporarily blocked the Department of Homeland Security from deporting people to "third countries", or countries other than the one they came from.

Brain dead Biden's auto pen at work.

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
That judge should be told quite directly (and publicly!) to FUCK OFF!

Yup. These leftist SOBs need to be told they don’t get to run every department of the Executive Branch.

I read that earlier and was trying to figure how / why a parent would sue. I mean, it is a goobermint recommendation, not a requirement.

Oh wait… now who could lose out cause parents decide to follow the guidelines and NOT get vaccines not on the list???

Pharmaceutical companies maybe?

Yesterday, A federal judge issued an injunction blocking the HHS vaccine committee from even meeting. The entire corporate media experienced a euphoric newsgasm, and blanketed the headlines with delirious stories about the ACIP committee. The Guardian’s headline trumpeted, “Federal judge blocks RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations.” None of the stories describe Judge Murphy’s eye-bleeding recent history. But never fear— I will!

Judge Brian E. Murphy, a Biden appointee to the deep-blue District of Massachusetts, is on some kind of wild tear. He has been reversed three times in the last 12 months on Trump cases— twice by the Supreme Court, and once by the First District Circuit Court of Appeal. He hasn’t won a single case. It would not be unfair to call him rabid.

Hours after the Supreme Court reversed him the first time (on an unrelated immigration case), Judge Murphy stubbornly issued a new order declaring that the Supremes’ order didn’t apply to his decisions and requiring the government to comply with his version.

This prompted frustrated Administration attorneys to ask the Supreme Court for emergency assistance, which it immediately provided, in the form of another order reversing Murphy again, and saying emphatically: oh, yes, our order DOES overrule you. Even liberal SCOTUS Justice Elena Kagan —who had disagreed with the original decision overruling Murphy— roasted him. She wrote that she did “not see how a district court can compel compliance with an order that this Court has stayed.”

Just two weeks ago, on March 5th, Murphy was reversed again, this time by his immediate bosses, the First Circuit. Judge Murphy last month declared the Administration’s efforts to deport illegal aliens to “third countries” (nations other than their country-of-origin) was unlawful and blocked its enforcement. But the First Circuit immediately stayed his order, saying they would soon issue a full ruling reversing him.

In short, Judge Murphy is 0-3 on Trump decisions.

That’s the judge who is trying to shelve the ACIP on a glacier in Greenland somewhere. He’s not really a judge so much as a human speed bump.

Judge Murphy’s 45-page opinion halting the ACIP meeting and overturning all its decisions was a love letter to technocratic credentialism. To give you an idea, it literally started —its first sentence— with a Carl Sagan quote praising the importance of science. Murphy’s opinion later cited a New York Times headline as proof of discrediting Dr. Robert Malone for “spreading misinformation.”

Murphy walked through each of Kennedy’s ACIP appointees, member by member, naming and shaming each one, and declared that 9 of the 15 were unqualified. But just look at who he’s dismissing as unqualified and why:

Dr. Pollak: a transplant surgeon, with 120+ peer-reviewed publications, and who was the principal investigator on NIH transplant grants. Note that transplant biology is immunology. Dr. Pollack has spent his entire career studying the immune system. Judge Murphy’s verdict: he’s not a vaccine expert.

Dr. Stein: an epidemiologist, Case Western Reserve graduate, 115 peer-reviewed publications on tuberculosis and infectious disease. Murphy’s verdict: not a vaccine expert. Because tuberculosis and infectious disease background don’t count, not unless you studied the right infectious diseases.

Dr. Malone: credited with foundational mRNA vaccine technology research, not to mention he’s been writing about vaccines for the last six years almost every day. Murphy’s verdict: his mRNA work was 30 years ago, his role is “disputed,” and the judge cited a New York Times hit piece calling him a “misinformation star.” In other words, a federal judge used a far-left newspaper hit-piece to impugn a scientist’s academic credentials. In a legal opinion. Unironically.

Dr. Griffin: he was the Surgeon General of Louisiana. Murphy: Not qualified.

Dr. Milhoan (the ACIP Chair): a pediatric cardiologist, Air Force flight surgeon, and a Ph.D. in myocardial inflammation. Murphy: Not qualified! Apparently, studying how hearts get inflamed after vaccination doesn’t count as relevant vaccine expertise.

Murphy’s test for “vaccine expertise” —a test he never explicitly defined— could be boiled down to one question: Did they spend their entire career inside the vaccine establishment? If not: unqualified. That’s the same kind of credentialist gatekeeping shoved vaccine injury research to the margins for decades. The old ACIP —the one packed with Murphy-approved vaccine orthodoxy— was the same committee that, as yesterday’s post explained, buried all the post-vaccine injury data under a noisy chicken coop of buzzwords and bureaucratic confusion.

The old ACIP’s Judge-Murphy-Approved “expertise” didn’t protect the public. It protected the program. It protected the gravy train. It protected the bureaucracy.

The whole point of Kennedy’s reconstitution was to bring in outsiders who would approach vaccine policy without conflicts of interest within the captured health establishment— crossing domains to include immunologists, epidemiologists, clinical physicians, and even a cardiologist who studies myocarditis. Judge Murphy disagrees with that approach. He ruled that only the people who spent their careers promoting vaccines are qualified to evaluate them.

It wasn’t a legal standard. It was the guild, protecting its turf.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...rue&utm_medium=email

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He’s not really a judge so much as a human speed bump.

chellim1 - I don't know where this article came from but the writer is entertaining! I am also tired of the activist judges. At least this one has been overturned 3 times.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Yesterday, A federal judge issued an injunction blocking the HHS vaccine committee from even meeting. The entire corporate media experienced a euphoric newsgasm, and blanketed the headlines with delirious stories about the ACIP committee. The Guardian’s headline trumpeted, “Federal judge blocks RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations.” None of the stories describe Judge Murphy’s eye-bleeding recent history. But never fear— I will!

Are you the author? If not, I was looking for a link so I could forward on. If yes, very informative and helpful.

Sorry, I have added the link.
Coffee & Covid ... I read it every day.

we should immediately nullify every single Biden appointment for a federal judge

the country would be better off

I would love for the Trump administration just tell such judges "Sorry, you don't have the authority to tell us what we can/cannot do in this situation, so we are ignoring you".