NEW YORK — The Supreme Court will consider a New York Police Department detective’s challenge against New York City’s municipal coronavirus vaccine mandate — after initially deciding against picking up the case.
In August, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a member of the top court’s liberal minority, dismissed a request from the detective, Anthony Marciano, to hear his challenge against the mandate, which requires all city workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
But Marciano’s lawyer, Patricia Finn, said in a Wednesday tweet that she recently resubmitted the request directly to conservative Justice Clarence Thomas in a deliberate effort to circumvent Sotomayor’s dismissal.
