HARTFORD — Hours after Gov. Ned Lamont signed a bill Wednesday to eliminate Connecticut’s religious exemption for required vaccines for students, opponents of the measure said they plan to file state and federal lawsuits as soon as Thursday seeking to overturn the law.
Outside the state Supreme Court in Hartford, Brian Festa, co-founder of We The Patriots USA and The Connecticut Freedom Alliance; attorneys Norm Pattis and Cameron Atkinson; and one of the plaintiffs signing onto the lawsuit, Sherry Harmon, argued the legislation not only “overreaches,” but also is “illegal and unconstitutional.”
“What has been incredibly diabolical about what has been done in that [Capitol] building over there is there has been a campaign to inspire and instigate fear in any person who would oppose this,” Atkinson said.