Justices Skip Illinois Workers’ Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate Case

Illinois government employees who unsuccessfully challenged the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandates on religious grounds failed to convince the US Supreme Court to take a look at their dispute Monday.

The petitioners, who work for state agencies, urged the justices to weigh in on whether an amendment to Illinois law on employees’ rights to refuse medical treatments that conflict with their religious beliefs stripped out those protections when it came to Covid-19 vaccines and testing, which they said ran afoul of the US Constitution.

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit repeatedly shut down the Illinois workers’ arguments, in ...