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At Minimum, Sotomayor Should Recuse Herself From All Decisions Regarding COVID
The Epoch Times ^ | January 9, 2022 | Roger L. Simon

Posted on 01/10/2022 8:03:20 AM PST by george76

Sonia Sotomayor’s ludicrous claim before her Supreme Court peers during oral arguments that one hundred thousand children were “in serious condition” from COVID-19 when three thousand would have been more accurate, is far more than just an embarrassment to the justice.

How could such an ill-informed person be a justice of our highest court? What else doesn’t she know—or, perhaps more exactly, doesn’t want to know?

Her full quotation makes it sound still worse.

“We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators.”

None of those are true. We are currently going through a bump in cases of the vastly weaker Omicron variant, which many have compared to a cold and in the vast majority of instances can be treated at home with therapeutics.

Even extreme vaccine enthusiast CDC director Rochelle Wallensky admitted that hospitalizations for other age groups were fifteen fold greater than the pediatric—and those weren’t much.

Sotomayor wasn’t alone on the court with her what some might euphemistically call “mischaracterization.”

Justice Stephen Breyer claimed “750 million new cases” of coronavirus had been reported in our country when the entire population is well less than half that.

Can you get two cases of COVID-19 at once? Who’d a thunk it?

What’s going on here? Are the two Supreme Court justices taking stupid pills? Is the “Wise Latina” not so wise after all?

She may not be a legal genius but that’s not the problem. The problem is what I have called “want-to-believe.”

Sotomayor and Breyer are so convinced of liberal/conservative ideology that they are unable even to see the arguments of the other side, sometimes to the extent that they do not even know they are there, that they exist.

This is even true when the arguments are about science, not politics—when facts, not opinions, are most important.

Have either of these people—Supreme Court justices who must have known for months that they were going to have to rule on matters concerning COVID—read any of the books on the subject by Alex Berenson, Dr. Scott Atlas, or Robert F. Kennedy Jr., himself obviously a liberal? Have they viewed any of the detailed videos made by Drs. Peter McCullough and Robert Malone, some available right here on The Epoch Times, warning of the significant dangers of vaccinating children with barely tested mRNA? (Malone, incidentally, was one of the mRNA vaccine inventors.)

Have they even read the Great Barrington Declaration? Do they know who signed it or what their backgrounds were (Harvard, Oxford and Stanford, among others)? Do they even know what it is?

In all probability, the answer to most, possibly all, of these questions is no. It is for almost every liberal or progressive I know. They are bathed in what are deemed the proper morally narcissistic views by the New York Times and CNN and accept them like automatons. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

In the case of COVID, this kind of extreme ignorance has left dead bodies across the globe. Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin be damned, even if they save millions of people. After all, Trump recommended them. They have to be bad.

Can you imagine anything more idiotic, less scientific? But that’s where we are on our Supreme Court, of all places, the new haven of know-nothingism. Mere bias wasn’t enough.

Sotomayor should obviously recuse herself from all matters regarding COVID.

She won’t. The American left—straight up to SCOTUS justices apparently—is suffused with a belief that everything they say is automatically correct, whatever they think ought to be to be true is true.

Sotomayor may not make a blunder as obvious as this one again, but the thought process—or lack thereof—that led to it will not change.

You might call it the anti-scientific method.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; cdc; claim; diversity; justice; ludicrous; ludicrousclaim; scotus; sonia; soniasotomayor; sotomayor; supremecourt
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To: george76

She is so incompetent she should be forced to recuse herself from any case involving the need for intelligence to decide it.

A prejudiced affirmative action justice.


21 posted on 01/10/2022 8:26:55 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: george76

She should recuse herself from all important decisions by reason of incompetence. But what one should do and what one actually does not always have a great amount of cooorelation.


22 posted on 01/10/2022 8:27:17 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: george76

Should have never been confirmed.

Fimsey Grahamnesty voted to approve her, just like he’s doing with all of Senile Joe’s lunatic picks.


23 posted on 01/10/2022 8:27:51 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: george76

You would think each of these Justices would have a person or staff to help gather and present data, so they wouldn’t look like a fool in their deliberations.
She must be an idiot, as well as her staff!


24 posted on 01/10/2022 8:27:55 AM PST by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: woweeitsme

Biden washes his hands of covid - not my problem despite his promises.. there is no federal solution to covid..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4025196/posts


25 posted on 01/10/2022 8:28:54 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

How is a Supreme Court...member impeached?


26 posted on 01/10/2022 8:30:42 AM PST by SuzyQue
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To: george76

Facts don’t matter, and there is no shame. It is all about advancing the policy and gaining the power.


27 posted on 01/10/2022 8:30:59 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: MinorityRepublican

Except we keep re-electing Assistant Democrats.......


28 posted on 01/10/2022 8:31:21 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: george76

Embarrassment or not, her lies will be trumpeted throughout liberaldom as the truth. And the mind-numbed leftist drones will believe it.


29 posted on 01/10/2022 8:34:48 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: george76

She should consign herself to a nunnery.


30 posted on 01/10/2022 8:37:55 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: george76

C’mon man, she just made a natural “mistake”. Biden makes them all the time and nobody says anything, /s


31 posted on 01/10/2022 8:38:38 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: george76

She’s not called “the wise Latina” for nothin’. Wait..../s


32 posted on 01/10/2022 8:39:36 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The ones we elect are Morons. Ginsburg was a Leftist but she was a friend of Scalia. So obviously he had respected her wit and her accomplishments on the court. Not sure we could say the same with Obama’s appointees.


33 posted on 01/10/2022 8:39:47 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: McBuff; MtnClimber; lightman

Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: Unconstitutional, Unscientific, Underhanded..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3993851/posts


34 posted on 01/10/2022 8:43:20 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

She can’t pound the law and can’t pound the facts; maybe she should just pound her head.


35 posted on 01/10/2022 8:43:51 AM PST by I-ambush (If we make it we’ll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying )
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To: george76
If a court case came up regarding whether their own personal residence could be seized under eminent domain none of the leftists would recuse themselves. No way, they'd claim they could set aside any personal interest and rule on the merits. Then they'd rule as you'd 100% expect them to.

Calling for a leftist judge to recuse themselves wastes way more breath than COVID ever did.

36 posted on 01/10/2022 8:44:11 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: george76

Recused for stupidity?

And while we’re at it, Roberts recused for perfidy?

Breyer, absurdity?

Kagan and Barrett, academic idiocy?

Kavanaugh, cupidity?

Gorsuch, wimpery?

It’s settled: let’s go with Thomas’s reliably strong judgment.


37 posted on 01/10/2022 8:45:02 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: george76

She should be impeached for being a retard.


38 posted on 01/10/2022 8:48:18 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: george76

Are they all dumb, stupid, and gut bucket ugly?


39 posted on 01/10/2022 8:48:57 AM PST by vexit
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To: george76

As should Justice Kennedy, who has already slimed the dissenters as anti-science and elevated to godhood the CDC & Fauci. They only know the “leftist talking points”!


40 posted on 01/10/2022 8:49:51 AM PST by Shery ( )
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