We wrote earlier about a supposed controversy between Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Neil Gorsuch that was reported by NPR.
Allugally, Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask since she didn’t feel safe from COVID because she has diabetes. Chief Justice John Roberts then asked everyone if they would mask up, but Gorsuch refused to wear a mask and Sotomayor was boycotting appearing on the bench in person because of Gorsuch’s refusal.
But according to a new report tonight from Fox, this just wasn’t true, according to their source.
🚨EXCLUSIVE@FoxNews Supreme Court reporter @ShannonBreamToday’s airs incorrect reporting @NinaTotenberg:
“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.” pic.twitter.com/petcj6q1nK
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) January 19, 2022
Not only didn’t Roberts ever ask the justices to mask up, but Sotomayor also didn’t ask Gorsuch to wear a mask — so Gorsuch never refused a request from her or Roberts to wear one.
“The source further stated Justice Sotomayor did not make any such request to Justice Gorsuch.
I am told that given that fact, there was also no refusal by Justice Gorsuch.”
– Chief @FoxNews Supreme Court Correspondent @ShannonBream
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) January 19, 2022
So the “controversy” pushed by NPR was just so much bunk. Just one more example of why you can’t trust media. Finally, they might push fake looks like this.
Neil Gorsuch stands up for his right to endanger Sonia Sotomayor’s health https://t.co/9iGyqcju23
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 19, 2022
All the justices are vaccinated, boosted, and are tested, and up to a couple of weeks ago, eight of the justices didn’t wear masks, as Mike Davis notes. Davis, the ex-Chief Counsel for Nominations at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and former Justice Gorsuch law clerk, has some information.
Gorsuch, just like every justice, is vacinated and given a boost.
Before presenting his arguments to the court, he also testifies.
So do advocates.
Court upgrades its air-filtration system.
8 justices didn’t wear masks before 2 Fridays ago.
Two took off their masks at that time.
Gorsuch doesn’t play theater.
Forever, Masks
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) January 18, 2022
So it seems that this NPR report was a hoax. We have three theories. Gorsuch/justices of the right are made to look terrible and Sotomayor is the victim. Totenberg also tried to promote the idea that the conservative wing was “divided.” Again, the Court doesn’t leak such things so this sounds like more bunk. That isn’t the way they operate.
But the mask story was pushed everywhere and likely won’t be corrected, adding yet one more thing to the mountain of falsehood the liberal media has built.
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