The Case Of The Mysteriously Changing Transcript (Gorsuch & the mandate arguments)

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://abovethelaw.com/2022/01/neil-gorsuch-cited-fake-flu-stats-and-then-scrubbed-the-transcript-like-a-coward/

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Taking a step back, in his efforts to downplay the need for a workplace safety rule requiring COVID vaccinations, Neil Gorsuch suggested that other communicable diseases are just as bad and have never warranted a vaccine rule. To wit, he asked:

We have vaccines against that — that, but the federal government through OSHA, so far as I know, and you can correct me, does not mandate every worker in the country to receive such a vaccine. We have flu vaccines. The flu kills, I believe, hundreds of thousands of people every year. OSHA has never purported to regulate on that basis.

People misspeak all the time, so Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar rolled by the incorrect statistic by underscoring that COVID numbers are much worse. At this point, if Gorsuch really meant to say “hundreds, thousands,” he’d just accept that the COVID numbers were worse. Instead, he incredulously asks her “Are you suggesting that it doesn’t pose a grave risk?” indicating that he really thought the flu numbers were living in the same ballpark as the COVID numbers.

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He's a fucking weasel.