NY Governor Ordered Employers  

to Violate Federal Law 

SCOTUS prepares to review our case 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered health care employers to break federal law or lose their license to do business in the Empire State. 

Our New York case has implications far beyond the COVID shots. If Hochul’s unlawful activities are allowed to stand, then any governor can rob any American of their federal protected rights. For example: 

• Schools that refuse to allow boys in girl’s bathrooms could lose their license to operate a school. 
• Doctors who refuse to perform abortions could lose their license to practice medicine. 
• Religious hospitals that refuse to perform mutilating surgeries could lose their license to operate a health care center. 
• Mental health counselors who refuse to “affirm” LGBTQ behaviors could lose their license to practice.  

The U.S. Supreme Court Justices will conference TOMORROW to determine if they will take up our case this term. We need your urgent prayers and financial support to ensure we win this pivotal case for rule of law and constitutional freedoms. 

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During the COVID crisis, Gov. Kathy Hochul seized breathtaking powers not granted her by any rule of law. She effectively locked people in their houses and even sent state police to track the movements of anyone who dared escape her lockdown state during COVID.  

Then, she threatened to close any hospital or health care business that obeyed long-standing federal Title VII employment law to accommodate the religious beliefs of even one person of faith. 

Hochul ordered New York health care workers to get the untested experimental COVID shots. Hospitals and health care employers that provided any accommodation to any person based on religion would face daily fines, and their business license would be revoked.  

Five years after the lockdowns, Hochul continues to insist she can ignore the Constitution and long-standing federal law. 

Tomorrow the High Court will review our case to determine if it will hear the case in full this Court session. This will be the third conference on this case — the prior two occurring on September 29 and October 10. This means the Court has a keen interest in this case. 

Pray that Gov. Hochul will be held accountable to the Constitution. 

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Under Hochul’s orders, any employee who requested their federal Title VII religious freedom rights was ordered to be fired. Any employer who honored an employee’s religious convictions would face daily fines AND lose their business and professional license, putting the employer out of business with no recourse — until Liberty Counsel stepped in.

One of our clients, Marty*, had a religious vaccine exemption for 10 years leading up to COVID, and this remote worker also had an exemption for the COVID shot — until Hochul’s order. That exemption was canceled. 

Another, John*, runs a 15-bed, faith-based senior living center in New York. For 50 years, the center’s employees have lived out their faith by serving elderly patients in their twilight years. Faith is the entire reason both patients and employees chose to live or work in John’s facility.

But Gov. Hochul demanded Marty, John, and a host of other employees to violate their faith and ordered employers to violate federal law or lose their business licenses.  

If we do not win this case, Hochul will be free to further punish religious people in her state, not just over experimental shot mandates, but also including, but certainly not limited to, the examples I provided above. 

Don’t let Gov. Hochul rob New Yorkers of their rights!

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects the right of employees to their religious beliefs. Hochul acts like she is above the law. But the law and court rulings are on our side. 

The U.S. Constitution and federal law are crystal clear: States can give citizens more rights than federal law offers, but states cannot take away rights the Constitution or federal law provide.

The Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal have all ruled that state laws must yield to federal laws regarding discrimination requirements. But Gov. Hochul doesn’t care.

Hochul robbed people of their religious freedom protected under federal law, and she will do it again if the High Court does not stop her. And if Hochul gets away with this lawless act, then other liberal governors and states will be emboldened.

We cannot allow Hochul to continue to rob Americans of their federal and constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom RIGHTS.

We need your help to see this case through to the U.S. Supreme Court. DOUBLE YOUR GIFT so that religious freedom does not die on Kathy Hochul’s doorstep.

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel