Posted on 01/19/2022 2:34:36 PM PST by thegagline
Supreme Court justices have weighed in after reports alleged that the reason Justice Sonia Sotomayor is participating in arguments from her chambers as opposed to sitting with colleagues is because of Justice Neil Gorsuch’s refusal to wear a mask.
“Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends,” Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, and Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, said in a Jan. 19 joint statement sent to The Epoch Times by a court spokesperson.
One report from NPR alleged that Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, had asked the other justice to wear masks because he understood that Sotomayor didn’t feel safe around people who weren’t wearing them, following the surge of the Omicron coronavirus virus variant. The report cited “court sources” for its claim and was authored by Nina Totenberg, who was fired for plagiarism earlier in her career.
Roberts later issued a statement, saying, “I did not request Justice Gorsuch or any other Justice to wear a mask on the bench.”
A report from CNN, citing a single unidentified source, alleged that Sotomayor had gone to her chambers for cases because she was uncomfortable with Gorsuch being unmasked. Sotomayor’s worries stem from having diabetes, which puts her at increased risk of experiencing severe illness if she contracts the virus, according to the reports. *** Neither NPR nor CNN had updated their stories hours after the justices issued the statements.
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Why hasn’t NPR been defunded?
Now, all you judges, join (gloved!!) hands and everybody break out into a chorus of ‘Ebony, Ivory, living in perfect harmony!”
NPR used the fake news to try to slam callous conservatives.
Even though the story has been debuked, NPR has not corrected.
So NPR lied again. What’s new?
Warm like a wet diaper.
Because, they like to talk about it, but to get rid of it, they don’t want to go there. They raise too much money and votes campaigning against it.
That’s one thing I wish Trump had accomplished.
He had his hands full with a lot of other stuff though.
Realizing how poor of support he got from Republicans on the
Hill, he may have opted not to address it because of the
waves it would have created.
Both side would have clobbered him for it.
There’s no friction because Karen Sotomayor isn’t there to generate any.
So Nina Totenberg lied again. I can remember Nina Totenberg lying when I was young during the Reagan administration, and she’s still at it. Some things never change.
They’re afraid of offending the colored dingbat who won’t come to work 🤪
One of the quicker opinions issued by Traitor Roberts’ Court.
Ugh. That is one ugly orgy I hope to never see.
I have a relative (married my cousin) who WAS on the MT SC for 12 years...
His view of the 2nd Amendment (and the Clintons, et. al.) vs mine caused ‘them’ to ostracize me from the entire family. I was never invited to ‘play in their reindeer games,’ so to speak for decades...
We were NEVER ‘Warm Colleagues’ - they HATED me for my constitutional views as well as my political views.
I DO NOT believe that the idiot ‘Latina’ can stand Goursich (or others) AT ALL! I’ve witnessed this personally.
Now, decades later, they want to ‘reconcile’ with me — actually writing “...I don’t know what happened to cause this rift...” — uh, YOU did — a person can only send Christmas cards and graduation gifts for X amount of years (the children sending thank-you cards for the gifts) while the parents refuse to send a Christmas card in return. A typical ‘birthday brunch’ invite’ for, say my Aunt, was a telephone call an hour prior to the brunch. ‘All of the other kids will be here’ — Me: ‘When did you invite them?’ Them: ‘Several months ago.’ Me: ‘NEVER call me again.’
I understand Goursich needs to do his job. I appreciate his tweak of the idiot from out of the country. I’d do the same.
Once either of them retires I HIGHLY doubt the idiot Latinix will EVER contact Goursich.
(Notice: the very best years of my & my Wife’s life have been due to NOT having to deal with these libtards over the decades. Restful.)
Next up on Fake News: The Trump Desantis Feud.
(There is no feud. But the gullible fell for it. After all the disinformation over the years, some people just don’t learn. Because they are stupid.)
Kavanaugh is a freak of nature, and Barrett is too strange to contemplate at this early stage, but it is not looking good. Kagan is KaKa. Breyer is a Clinton Justice and that is all that needs to be said.
Why hasn’t NPR been defunded?
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This should be a litmus test for Republican candidates.
If they won’t do this one, simple thing how can we trust them to do anything?
They’re not there to be “warm” to each other. Their job is to render decisions based on our Constitution and laws.
Their personal opinions, ideology, and feelings have no place in the Court’s proceedings.
Then this thread via Breitbart was moot.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4030603/posts
We really have to watch ourselves. And be skeptical of everything. EVERYthing.
So, she is indeed doing remote albeit from her chamber office. Presumably because she is diabetic and just to be sure? Roberts said no one has to wear a mask. So this accusation specifically against Gorsuch itself is silly. She would be blaming the whole court if masks were the reason.
...and in her fearful isolation she is fully dominated by her radical law clerks information gatekeepers... proved by her outlandish Covid claims re: children.
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