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SCOTUS Justices’ COVID Ignorance Illustrates Why They Should Stay in Their Lane
American Thinker.com ^ | January 10, 2022 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 01/10/2022 3:16:27 AM PST by Kaslin

Aside from labeling herself an “affirmative action baby,” Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor once suggested she was a “wise Latina.” Given this, apropos here is a line from ancient Chinese sage Confucius:

“Wisdom is, when you know something, knowing that you know it; and when you do not know something, knowing that you do not know it.”

Sotomayor certainly failed this test during oral arguments on Friday over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 “vaccine” mandates, making outlandishly incorrect claims that have brought her mockery. “We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators,” she stated matter-of-factly. "We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators.”

Both assertions are so distant from reality that one could wonder where the judge gets her information; even limiting oneself to just New York Times perusal shouldn’t yield such profound ignorance.

In reality, hospitals are not nearly overwhelmed, and the children hospitalized who have coronavirus number only about 3,700, according to the CDC. Yet even this is misleading. As Dr. Anthony Fauci himself admitted recently — with Democrats’ tanking poll numbers inspiring him to paint a rosier picture — most of these children are hospitalized “with” SARS-CoV-2, not “because” of COVID-19.

(Note: The former is the pathogen; “COVID-19” is the disease that can result from it. So, technically, it’s not even correct to say that asymptomatic kids under medical care and testing positive for the virus are hospitalized “with COVID”; there is no “COVID” because they have no symptoms.)

As Fauci confessed, every child admitted to the hospital is automatically tested for the China virus, and thus will a kid being treated for a broken leg be listed as a hospitalization “with” SARS-CoV-2 upon a positive result.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; covid
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1 posted on 01/10/2022 3:16:27 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

So, I gather that the MSM has taken over clerk duties for the (not so) “wise Latina”.


2 posted on 01/10/2022 3:24:57 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Purposeful stupidity is a virtue in today’s society.


3 posted on 01/10/2022 3:25:49 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Kaslin

NO, they did not illustrate why they should stay in their lane; they showed why some should be impeached.


4 posted on 01/10/2022 3:29:38 AM PST by jimfr
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To: Kaslin

Making false statements in oral argument before the Court is a disciplinary offense and the Fat La Raza should have her ticket pulled. Breyer is just a moron.


5 posted on 01/10/2022 3:32:12 AM PST by anton
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To: Kaslin

This is probably another example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect*.

* https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dunning-kruger-effect


6 posted on 01/10/2022 3:33:50 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud?)
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To: Kaslin

It seems to me the justices should not be arguing a case before the court. They should shut up and listen.


7 posted on 01/10/2022 3:39:44 AM PST by Old Yeller (1776 em all. Let God sort it out.)
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To: Kaslin

They just need to stick to the facts presented in the case, not what they hear on CNN.

They are not technical in the scientific or mathematical regard, but I would not want to see a fauci court reserved for technical cases.

Before freaking out entirely, remember that this was just the question/answer session before the case is actually heard, so it does not necessarily mean erroneous “facts” will be the basis of their decision.

But I guess you never know with the agenda justices.


8 posted on 01/10/2022 3:40:30 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Kaslin

9 posted on 01/10/2022 3:47:10 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Kaslin

willful ignorance

directed by the deep state


10 posted on 01/10/2022 3:58:18 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Kaslin
The three Progressive judges, Sotomeyer, Kagan, and Breyer, are only following the Progressive philosophy regarding the Constitution. It is (there is no question, this is repeatedly stated in the founding documents of Progressivism):

1. The Constitution is old and was relevant for its time. It is no longer relevant.

2. Wise elites must find ways to "work around" the Constitution to obtain the results they desire.

3. Wise elites must shape the public perception in order to get what they desire.

4. Any methods, including lying to the public is acceptable to get the results desired.

5. In order to be a member of the wise elites, one has to be a Progressive.

6. As the Progressives only want to do good, and they must have power to do good, therefore any method to hold onto power is acceptable, so they can do good.

11 posted on 01/10/2022 4:01:36 AM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
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To: Kaslin

... not ‘wise’ Latina ... WIDE Latina.


12 posted on 01/10/2022 4:02:04 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s irrelevant. The issue is whether OSHA had the legislated authority to impose a vaccine mandate and/or whether it is a “major question” that can never be delegated and must be decided by the legislature and agreed to by the President.

A further question is whether the implementation [e.g. excluding large groups for political reasons] was reasonable in the circumstance where public safety - in the view of OSHA - required universal mandates.

It should be booted on all of the above.


13 posted on 01/10/2022 4:02:48 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Kaslin

Stay in their lane.

Their ignorance shows that they’re unqualified to be on the court. Three shining examples of liberal morons, propped up, making decisions based on emotion and not having a clue what they’re doing. Especially the Wise Latina and Kagan


14 posted on 01/10/2022 4:04:06 AM PST by qaz123
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To: fruser1

“so it does not necessarily mean erroneous “facts” will be the basis of their decision.”

Respectfully disagree.

The “erroneous facts” were deep state talking points provided to the liberal justices which they dutifully regurgitated.

The purpose was twofold, give the idiot liberal masses hope and justification to rationalize the group narrative and second confirm their allegiance to the deep state.

Bryer, Kagan and Sotomayor are not justices. They are super legislators who do the will of the deep state.


15 posted on 01/10/2022 4:05:41 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

I can’t imagine why anyone working to manipulate the situation from behind the scenes ever would have wanted the stupidity and ignorance of these morons to be put out in public view like that.


16 posted on 01/10/2022 4:10:06 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest; still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: joma89

you have a cold. get out of the ER!


17 posted on 01/10/2022 4:23:29 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Alberta's Child

stupidity and ignorance

IMHO I don’t think the liberal justices are either of the above.

There are exhibiting a willful disregard for the truth and propagandizing an alternative reality to justify the unjustifiable for money and power.


18 posted on 01/10/2022 4:49:02 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: jimfr

Just another blatant strategy of undermining the US justice system. Drip drip drip.


19 posted on 01/10/2022 5:49:49 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: Kaslin

Sounds like the Democrats on the court treat the place like a Senate chamber focused on advocacy of legislative policy rather than its legality. Yes, I called them Democrats, and not justices, because, in the end, that is what they are, Just political folks in a room who have law degrees, fully aware of what party appointed them to the court and are either too bored with the law or too ignorant of it {yes, I am speaking of you, Sotomayer) to take time out from their policy advocacy.


20 posted on 01/10/2022 5:52:07 AM PST by chuckee
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