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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

Just more stupidity from Ivy-trained attorneys. It’s almost ubiquitous.


41 posted on 01/10/2022 8:52:25 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: george76
The WIDE Latino and Breyers BOTH should recuse themselves!! Nothing but PSTUPID!

Neither one of them said anything about what they were supposed to settle....IS IT CONSTITUTIONAL????

42 posted on 01/10/2022 9:04:52 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: george76

Have they read anything? Silly question. Breyer is in his dotage, his clerks do all the prep. Soto mayor is a total mediocrity who wouldn’t be able to sustain attention span long enough to absorb information.
Even worse, she revealed that she doesn’t understand the difference between people and machines.


43 posted on 01/10/2022 9:05:44 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Ann Archy

The Constitution???!? You mean that scrap of paper with a bunch of stuff written by dead white guys?


44 posted on 01/10/2022 9:07:34 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76
Leftists never recuse themselves. They are not jurists. They are political ideologues who managed to get themselves a lifetime position at the highest levels of government. They will never, ever neglect an opportunity to advance the ideology.

Recusing is only something that their political opponents are supposed to do.
45 posted on 01/10/2022 9:07:54 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: george76

Agree fully

she does not belong anywhere near the bench anyway
but
in this case, she articulates such falsities about the case as to clearly shown she is prejudiced concerning it

no judge can properly hear a case s/he has such bias concerning

we are supposed to have a fair and just judiciary

she needs to (at the least) recuse herself (not sit and hear or vote on) this case


46 posted on 01/10/2022 9:11:37 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: dfwgator

Toilet paper for DEMOCRATS!


47 posted on 01/10/2022 9:13:58 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: faithhopecharity

And to think Lindsey Graham voted to confirm her. Even McCain and Murkowski voted ‘nay’.


48 posted on 01/10/2022 9:15:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76

What all of the justices who made wrong statements about covid should do, is acknowledge their error and put out a statement with the correct information and cite sources.


49 posted on 01/10/2022 9:16:34 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: george76; Fury; HamiltonJay
Yesterday I had a Invasion of the Body Snatchers moment when three of my neighbors started quoting Justice Sonia Sotomayor and even adding a little bit claiming that hundreds of thousands of children were in the hospital on ventilators dying from Covid. Under my breath said, "That is pure propaganda." This is the reaction that I got as they shouted me down.

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They are incapable of having a rational conversation. Unfortunately, the same is true even with many here on FreeRepublic. Even ask for details and you face derision...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4028232/posts #62

I said, "You have been here since 1999 and know the drill. If you post a vanity, you typically participate in the discussion started." This was to someone who started a vanity about someone who he barely knew who died with Covid who said he had no agenda and then refused to answer questions for nearly an hour and then only to claim that the person he barely knew had no health problems.

Fury said, "Oh, grow up. What a joke of a post."

50 posted on 01/10/2022 9:18:29 AM PST by fireman15
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To: george76

The wise Latina is so stupid she thinks she is the smartest person in the room.

She is completely unaware she’s a laughingstock.


51 posted on 01/10/2022 9:31:33 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: wny

All three. Very mediocre mind.


52 posted on 01/10/2022 9:33:46 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: george76

The Wide Latina needs to be impeached and removed, if she doesn’t coreect the record and apologize publically. And recuse.

The dems would remove a SC Justice if he said, “Covid hasn’t killed anyone.” Same thing.


53 posted on 01/10/2022 9:40:34 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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To: george76
Sorry the link in my post #50 got screwed up. It was post #62 in the following thread. You ask for details from a person who started a vanity about someone they claim they barely knew who they say died “from” Covid... and you get scolded.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4028232/posts

54 posted on 01/10/2022 9:40:55 AM PST by fireman15
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To: george76

Sonia Sotomayor’s on the bench because she’s ‘of color’, has a vagina, and will parrot the left-wing line.


55 posted on 01/10/2022 9:49:14 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: hanamizu

“I’m much more concerned about the she seems puzzled by the fact that under the form of government designed by our Constitution, that states actually have powers denied to the Federal government.”

You’re not joking. She is ignorant of the Constitution.

That’s very bad.


56 posted on 01/10/2022 9:49:41 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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To: fireman15
Yesterday I had a Invasion of the Body Snatchers moment when three of my neighbors started quoting Justice Sonia Sotomayor and even adding a little bit claiming that hundreds of thousands of children were in the hospital on ventilators dying from Covid

I am retired so I have a little extra time to follow Covid. If you watch/listen/view local news, there is very little covid news reporting. They will provide a case/death count and PSA info from the local/state health departments. My county has a halfway decent covid dashboard. After nearly 2 years there has been zero deaths for the 0-10 age group in my county of ~210K. There has only been 2 death reported for the 10 to 30 age group.

57 posted on 01/10/2022 10:21:02 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: george76

She is an ignorant and lying idiot.
She has no business being on the nations highest court.


58 posted on 01/10/2022 10:24:14 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: EVO X
If you watch/listen/view local news, there is very little covid news reporting.

We want to move to a place that is like where you live and are working on getting out of here. Our local news starts with Covid hysteria, takes a break for Snowmageddon, and a few minutes of commercials, goes back to Covid hysteria, has something about the threat from people owning guns. Then it ends with more Covid. Whenever I wonder why people are getting so freaked out, I just turn on the local news. People around here give you dirty looks when you are not wearing a mask at the gas pump. You need to produce a vaccination record if you want to go to local restaurants.

59 posted on 01/10/2022 10:33:59 AM PST by fireman15
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To: Ken522

Kagan should get the same treatment” -

Removing jistices isn’t possible or wise with Biden as President. The replacements will be worse. Hillary and Warrwn come to mind.


60 posted on 01/10/2022 10:43:45 AM PST by JeanLM
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