The astonishing comments in the arguments came from Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer.
Their comments were astonishing because they revealed the justices didn’t seem to know or understand basic facts about the virus and vaccines.
Sotomayor said crazy things like there were 100 thousand kids in serious condition from COVID with “many on ventilators,” and that Omicron is as serious as Delta — two demonstrably false things.
Then Breyer decided to keep her company with fantasyland COVID comments. He said 750 million caught COVID yesterday when there are only 330 million Americans in the whole country. Maybe he was referring to the world, but YESTERDAY??
He also indicated he thought all the cases could be stopped by this OSHA mandate — something that, again, is simply not even logical or living in reality.
Fortunately, it sounds like the conservative majority on the Court may have some sense on the matter, even if the liberal wing doesn’t.
They didn’t trip over themselves as Breyer and Sotomayor did. They indicated skepticism as to the “emergency” nature of the OSHA rule and also questioned whether or not Congress had given OSHA such authority. Now, it’s always a good thing to add the proviso that justices’ questions don’t necessarily indicate how they are going to decide. Often, they ask things to rule out positions they’re not inclined toward.
But at least we know they are not as clueless as the liberal wing, and those are reasonable questions to ask.
I didnt think any of them sounded very bright.