Neither was I the only one. There were several accounts of SCOTUS judge Sotomayor staying home because fellow judge Gorsuch refused to wear a face diaper… well, actually just repeats of NPR’s account. Does this look like the face of a psycho freaky-Karen promoted far beyond her wits and ability?
Yes, absolutely.
Neither did Sotomayor help her credibility by recently…
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By Zachary Evans for National Review
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claimed that 100,000 children are in “serious condition” from Covid during oral arguments on the Biden administration’s employer vaccine mandate on Friday.
“We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators,” Sotomayor claimed.
The current number of confirmed pediatric hospitalizations with Covid in the U.S. is 3,342, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services released on Friday. The average number of children admitted to the hospital per day with Covid was 776 as of Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
She’s a nutcase of a fruit basket, so of course she’d play the victim card by staying home because a man wasn’t taking Coof-Coof seriously. It passed my smell test. I nearly did a post on him and I’m sorry I didn’t (busy with work), because then I would have had the original of this article:
Report Contradicts NPR’s Nina Totenberg: Justice Gorsuch Not Defying Roberts, No Mask Mandate for SCOTUS
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By Joel B. Pollack, 18 January 2022
Notice the mismatch between the title and URL. That’s become one of my standard check-for-tricks.
An NPR story that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will continue to work remotely because fellow Justice Neil Gorsuch refuses to wear a mask in court despite a request from Chief Justice John Roberts to do so was quickly debunked by a Supreme Court source.
NPR reported Tuesday that the justices were like a “dysfunctional family”:
“It was pretty jarring earlier this month when the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court took the bench for the first time since the omicron surge over the holidays. All were now wearing masks. All, that is, except Justice Neil Gorsuch. What’s more, Justice Sonia Sotomayor was not there at all, choosing instead to participate through a microphone setup in her chambers.
“Sotomayor has diabetes, a condition that puts her at high risk for serious illness, or even death, from COVID-19. She has been the only justice to wear a mask on the bench since last fall when, amid a marked decline in COVID-19 cases, the justices resumed in-person arguments for the first time since the onset of the pandemic.
“Now, though, the situation had changed with the omicron surge, and according to court sources, Sotomayor did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked. Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other justices to mask up.
“They all did. Except Gorsuch, who, as it happens, sits next to Sotomayor on the bench. His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices’ weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone.”
But Fox News later reported that according to a source at the Supreme Court the story was not accurate. Chief Justice John Roberts had not asked the other justices to mask up for arguments, and Justice Sotomayor had not requested Justice Gorsuch wear a mask. Given those facts, there was no refusal by Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask.
Not accurate, hell. That was FABRICATED.
A day after the Fox report contradicting NPR’s Totenberg, Gorsuch and Sotomayor released a joint statement personally refuting the story.
Editor’s Note: This story and the headline were updated to include that a source at the Supreme Court said the NPR story was not accurate, and that Fox News reported the inaccuracies.
It’s interesting that Totenberg’s libel of Gorsuch was accepted at face value by multiple conservative and liberal outlets. The first takeaway is that SJWs believe that normal human behavior is toxic. Totenberg accused Gorsuch of… horrors!… breathing unfiltered oxygen even if it inconvenienced a woman enough to make her not bother coming into work.
If you can’t risk getting sick then you SHOULD stay home! What you shouldn’t do is go about your daily routine while screeching at everybody around you that THEY should protect YOUR health.
NPR wanted to believe that Sotomayor was a victim.
Breitbart wanted to believe that Gorsuch was a normal person.
I wanted to believe that SCOTUS was having the same problems with living a normal life that I am. But no, the Ruling Elites of the judicial system in D.C. are happily going maskless.
“A source at the Supreme Court says there has been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other Justices begin wearing masks to arguments.”
Another takeaway is that news media is more incestuous than Lot in a cave with his daughters. When I find an interesting story, I try to backtrack it to the original source rather than copying a copy. This isn’t always feasible, for example paywalls or me not being on Twitter/Facebook, but the practice of using original sources is a good one.
Another is that media manipulation has gone mainstream. So many people know now that the Establishment media lies, that its members have ceased trying to hide it.
One wonders if ((Totenberg)) will get axed for reporting a completely false, easily disprovable story.
*checks*
Well, well. Here’s yet another takeaway: SJWs always double down.
NPR reporter fumes over Supreme Court statement refuting outlet’s story, implies Gorsuch and Sotomayor lied
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By Brian Flood, 19 January 2022
An NPR reporter appeared to call Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor liars on Wednesday after they issued a joint statement disputing a recent NPR report as “false.”
NPR reported the conservative justice refused to wear a mask on the bench despite requests to do so, but Gorsuch and Sotomayor issued a statement calling it a “false” story that surprised them. As the joint statement spread across the media industry, NPR reporter David Gura raised eyebrows by declaring the justices’ statement was “at best false” while he condemned reporters who passed it along.
Totenberg: “Gorsuch forced Sotomayor to work from home!”
Gorsuch & Sotomayor: “Huh? No, he didn’t.”
Gura: “Liars!”
We saw this behavior during Gamergate. Somebody is having sex with Totenberg!
“I [sic] surprised at how many Supreme Court correspondents I admire are passing along a statement from two justices that is at best false without any context whatsoever,” Gura tweeted shortly after Gorsuch and Sotomayor issued their statement.
The link contains some savage return-tweets. A sample:
Larry O’Connor: “The statement from the justices is wrong because it is at odds with his colleagues report about those very same justices. Ya gotta admire this”
And from the comments, summing my own opinion: When one of the most liberal justices teams up with a very conservative justice to issue a joint statement refuting NPR, I think the nod goes to the justices that NPR was wrong.
The first story was a lie by Totenberg. The second was a refutation of the truth by a peer of Totenberg. And between the two, I got duped into believing that SCOTUS had real-world problems.