(Salt Lake County, UT) — The Salt Lake County Republican Party is pushing Governor Spencer Cox to defy the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the Utah National Guard. In a letter to the governor, GOP Chair Chris Null urged the governor to “protect the rights” of the guardsmen, saying “Utah must retain authority over its own National Guard.” Oklahoma’s governor recently challenged the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement. However, a federal judge ruled against the challenge after noting that Oklahoma did not object to vaccine requirements for other diseases for service members.