Neil Gorsuch Stands Up for His Right to Endanger Sonia Sotomayor's Health

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has diabetes, elevating her risk for serious illness or death should she contract Covid-19. Sotomayor said recently that she doesn’t feel comfortable sitting next to unmasked justices as the highly transmissible Omicron variant surges, so Chief Justice John Roberts asked the court to wear masks.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, who sits directly next to Sotomayor on the bench, refused to do so, pushing Sotomayor to do her job remotely when the court reconvened this month.

NPR reported Monday on the rift inside SCOTUS, which is currently operating under a conservative supermajority that liberal justices are worried is laying waste to precedent, particularly when it comes to abortion rights. “Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don’t see how it is possible,” Sotomayor said last month during arguments for a case that could set the stage for the court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

It isn’t just abortion rights. The court last week blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for the nation’s largest employers. The mandate would have covered around two-thirds of the nation’s workforce. The court ruled against it, 6-3. The six votes to slap it down came from the court’s six conservative justices, who argued that Covid doesn’t represent an “occupational hazard.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/neil-gorsuch-stands-endanger-sonia-165444722.html

[Hekate]

1. Gorsuch looks so smug while endangering the lives of others

[Trueblue1968]

10. I CAN'T POST MY OPINION here but i know what i'd like to do to him .......

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Welcome To The Next 30-40 Years Of Being In The Minority On Court

Besides, it's not like her vote is going to mean anything other than the difference between 6-3 and 6-2.

[fescuerescue]

3. Why couldn't they move their seats around

So that Gorsuch is further away from Sotomayer?

Or least give Gorsuch a Covid test.

[Mike Nelson]

4. Yikes!

... what happened to trying to accommodate people you work with? Gorsuch should be asked to attend via remote - or, better yet, get off the court!

[dchill]

5. "Off the court" would be the fairest, safest option.

[Wild blueberry]

6. Gorsuch should have to work remotely

His behavior causes the risk. He must take responsibility.

[bluestarone]

8. THIS!

[malaise]

9. The Chief Justice should have enforced that

I hope Herman pays Gorsuch a visit

[gratuitous]

7. Well, since you can get Covid anywhere . . .

The Supreme Court has ruled that because you can catch the virus anywhere (including your place of work), it's unconstitutional for the government to require that workplaces practice safe health procedures for workers. In the upside-down anti-citizenry world of the Federalist Society, Gorsuch is right and Sotomayor is wrong. So there.

Now, there's no reason that the boss (in this case, Chief Justice Roberts) can't institute a mask-wearing regimen for the workplace, but he hasn't done so. Let's not let anyone skate on their responsibility for this deplorable situation.