an-anti-vax-judge-is-preventing-the-navy-from-deploying-a-warsh

[tinymontgomery]

Full headline: An Anti-Vax Judge Is Preventing the Navy From Deploying a Warship

This judge is out of hand and needs to be removed.

this moment, the United States Navy is preparing to deploy a 10,000-ton warship carrying 320 officers and sailors, along with missiles, torpedoes, and a mounted artillery gun. This ship, known as a guided-missile destroyer, defends the United States and its allies on the seas. Although its next mission remains secret, it may bolster American military presence in Europe as Russian aggression pushes the continent into war. But the Navy cannot currently deploy this warship, because it has lost trust in its commanding officer, an anti-vaxxer who has repeatedly disobeyed lawful orders, misled superiors, and allegedly exposed dozens of his crew to COVID-19 due to a refusal to get tested.

Brandon’s view is shared across the Navy. In Dwyer’s alarming declaration, the vice admiral explained that Doe would constitute a “manifest national security concern” if he remains a commanding officer. “It is untenable that a subordinate commander may choose to disregard, modify, or half-heartedly execute a senior officer’s orders due to his or her personal beliefs,” Dwyer testified. This insubordination “degrades mission effectiveness and the ability of the strike group to perform its mission in the interest of U.S. national security.”

This situation is untenable. Already, a Texas judge, abetted by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has freed nearly three dozen SEALs from the vaccine mandate, a decision that high-ranking officers say will put the world at risk. Now Merryday is holding back a warship from deployment—and the judicial resistance to military mandate is just beginning. These cases are on a fast-track to the Supreme Court. If the justices do not confirm that judges must respect the commander-in-chief’s lawful orders, thousands of other service members like Doe will unleash chaos on the armed forces.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/an-anti-vax-judge-is-preventing-the-navy-from-deploying-a-warship/ar-AAUCPpu?ocid=msedgntp&fbclid=IwAR3WL8Gblp3njGi0_qJhPeMVthJHrekH7Ip7maWnch0CtVKmYYiAChdHF9k

[acantharchus]

1. This post makes no sense to me. nt

[Nevilledog]

4. Here

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC
An insubordinate anti-vaxxer is currently the commanding officer of a guided-missile destroyer. Navy leaders won't deploy the warship while he's in charge—they don't trust him.

But a judge won't let them reassign him, citing his "religious freedom."

slate.com
An Anti-Vax Judge Is Preventing the Navy From Deploying a Warship
Admirals want to remove an insubordinate anti-vaxxer from command of a destroyer. A judge won’t let them.
3:15 PM · Mar 4, 2022

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/covid-vaccine-judge-navy-warship-religious-freedom.html

The headline is a bit confusing

[tinymontgomery]

6. Thanks for the Twitter link n/t

[Bev54]

2. There is something seriously wrong with the US justice system

[zaj]

3. Biden doesn't need to defer to this judge in making these leadership...

... actions, right? I mean, this guy can be assigned to be the highest ranking toilet scrubber at the Pentagon, right?

[jmowreader]

9. Apparently not

I would think this judge could be impeached for trying to overthrow the Navy, but good luck coming up with 17 Republican senators who give a flying fuck about the security of the United States.

[JoanofArgh]

5. Supposedly the judge used freedom of religion which doesn't make any sense

This is insane.

[Chainfire]

7. We have been going insane for some years now. Some of us thrive on it.

[haele]

16. UCMJ does not allow for freedom of religion exemptions.

If your personal beliefs dictate you cannot perform your job, you are removed from that position. Maybe not out, but definitely off the ship and no longer in a position of command. And lying on an official leave request? That's a dishonorable discharge
Don't care what a civilian judge says about it.
Religious exemptions mean you go somewhere that it won't be an issue until it's time to re-,up or get out.

Haele

[keithbvadu2]

8. Republicans used to be against judicial activism.

Republicans used to be against judicial activism.

Now they want their favorite judges to run our military.

[BlueIdaho]

12. Only when they can blame Democrats for it.

They love to hire judges who follow orders.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Since when have civilian judges had jurisdiction over military affairs?

This wrong on so many levels. The military has its own justice system and a chain of command that shit like this is undermining.

[BlueIdaho]

11. Traitor.

Does he have a photo of Putin on his bedside table?

[keithbvadu2]

13. Can the crew trust a CO whose integrity is doubted by his own chain of command?

Can the crew trust a CO whose integrity is doubted by his own chain of command?

The hypocrisy of non-judicial punishment given by him.

Failure to follow orders.

[tinymontgomery]

14. As retired navy, no you can't trust that CO. n/t

[ChoppinBroccoli]

15. I Thought The Judge Was From Southern Ohio And Was Preventing Them From Doing Laundry

Because when people from Southern Ohio say they're going to do the laundry, they say they're going to go put clothes "in the warsh." I thought maybe "deploying a warsh" meant the Navy was going to do the laundry. LOL

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. It's incredible a civilian judge apparently has the power to prevent military reassignments

which everything points to being operationally necessary. It's not a question of "we want to punish them with a posting to the Aleutians", it's that they need a commander they and the ship can trust.

[Hekate]

18. This makes no sense at all

[bluecollar2]

19. Send the MAA to physically remove the Captain, promote the XO,

Appoint a new XO, muster all hands, approve immediate removal of any crew who oppose vaccination and then get underway.

Court martial the Captain for failure to obey a lawful order, throw him into the brig at Leavenworth and let the court sort it out.

Problem solved.