Opinion: Where was Justice Neil Gorsuch's mask?
Justice Sotomayor sits next to this asshole and had to do arguments remotely because this prick would not wear a mask. Justice Sotomayor is immunocompromised and this asshole knew this and refused to wear a mask. TFG picked some real assholes to be on the court
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When the Supreme Court justices took their seats Friday morning to hear oral arguments in two cases challenging the Biden administrations covid rules, seven of the justices wore masks a change in their previous behavior prompted, no doubt, by the emergence of an new infectious strain.
One justice, Sonia Sotomayor, who had previously been the only justice to wear a mask on the bench, participated remotely from her chambers. Sotomayor has diabetes, which is a risk factor for more severe illness with covid. She also is, or would have been, Gorsuchs seat mate for the nearly four-hour-long argument session.
The court, having resumed in-person arguments, retains strict limits on who can attend and strict rules for those allowed inside the chamber. Reporters and lawyers must wear masks N95 masks, not the less-effective cloth variety and test negative for covid. In fact, two of the lawyers who argued against the Biden administrations vaccine mandates had to do so remotely after testing positive. And instead of being crammed cheek by jowl in the press section, reporters, along with the justices law clerks, are spaced throughout the otherwise-empty chamber......
No one is the boss of Justice Gorsuch. Like his colleagues, he had a choice about whether to wear a mask. Unlike them, he chose poorly.
flying_wahini
(6,600 posts)Casady1
(2,133 posts)I am more important than anyone. His mother was also an asshole. I can't think of a single republican justice that I have liked even a little bit in a long time. Scalia made me puke and Alito might be worse. Arrogant assholes. The last three are complete assholes.
Skittles
(153,164 posts)conservative hack who claims he is "pro-life"
fucking piece of shit hypocrite
gademocrat7
(10,658 posts)LaMouffette
(2,035 posts)"I wouldn't want him to get long-haul Covid or anything. I don't know him, he seems like a nice enough guy. Be a shame, really . . . !"
What does happen when justices are out for illness for a very long time? Could Biden appoint interim justices? Probably not, huh? They'd probably just shut everything down.
Mysterian
(4,587 posts)and make these evil shitstains a footnote in history books.
Diamond_Dog
(32,002 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,291 posts)Hekate
(90,708 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,291 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,291 posts)Gorsuch is an asshole
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch did not wear a mask for a hearing Tuesday, even as all the other justices in attendance did so, and as two of his colleagues appeared remotely due to apparent concerns about Covid-19.
Gorsuch has failed to wear a mask on the bench during oral arguments since Friday, while the other justices who physically appeared for arguments all did so in apparent recognition of the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.......
Last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who normally sits next to Gorsuch during hearings, and who until recently had been the sole justice to wear a mask, began participating in arguments remotely through an audio connection to her chambers last Friday.
Sotomayor is diabetic, putting her more at risk from Covid.
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