Frivolous Religious Rights Cases Against COVID Protections

Last Monday, a federal appeals court supported the right of Indiana University to require students to get vaccinated. It wasn't a close call. Writing for a three-member panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Frank Easterbrook pointed out that a wide range of conditions govern enrollment at state institutions of higher education. For starters, you've got to pay tuition. And just because the First Amendment guarantees the state cannot tell you what to read or write, you don't get to refuse to read an assigned book because you think it's heretical.