SCOTUS Mandate Day: Twitter Roundup

Michael P Senger @MichaelPSenger

A partial list of COVID misinformation repeated by the US Supreme Court so far today: •100,000 children in critical care and on ventilators (Sotomayor) •Vaccine mandate would prevent 100% of US cases (Breyer) •COVID deaths are at an all-time high (Sotomayor) 1/

Michael P Senger @MichaelPSenger

•It’s “beyond settled” that vaccines and masks are best way to stop the spread (Kagan) •COVID vaccines stop transmission (Kagan) •Federal government can mandate vaccines using its police power (Sotomayor) •Hospitals are nearing capacity (Sotomayor) 2/

Michael P Senger @MichaelPSenger

•Omicron is deadlier than Delta (Sotomayor) •Hospitals are full of unvaccinated people (Breyer) 3/

Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain

It’s been obvious from the day she was appointed that Justice Sotomayor is the dumbest person on the court

Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro

Sotomayor claims not to understand distinction between state and federal power. Mind-boggling. Calls OSHA's regulatory authority to be a "police power." OH SG tries to explain con law 101, eventually Roberts rescues the embarrassing discourse.

Dr. Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com @shipwreckedcrew

One of her Clerks read it on Twitter.

Harmeet K. Dhillon @pnjaban

Justice Sotomayor is again bringing non-record anecdotes into the argument -- who are these people not seeking important medical treatment for fear of getting COVID in a medical facility? The opposite it true -- sick people being barred from critical treatment b/c not vaxxed.

Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke

That’s not a “point,” and it’s not incumbent upon him to disprove it. The government may act if it has the power to do so, and may not if it doesn’t; it may not do whatever it wants unless someone can explain why it can’t. That would invert our entire system and destroy the law.

Neal Katyal @neal_katyal

Her point is that the extraordinary nature of the pandemic justifies the vaccine mandate. He hasn't provided a coherent answer.

Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit

I'm pro-vax, but the problem that govt is facing right now isnt from the unvax, but from infections and hospitalizations among the fully vax as relative protection of fully vax has eroded.

Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit

even if vaccines live up to lesser promise of preventing severe disease, their more or less abject failure to prevent infection has apparently given rise to operating problems at hospitals due to staff shortages. This would not have been problem if vaccines worked as expected.

Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke

Masks are a pretty good indicator of a lot of things these days. Only Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas went maskless.

Cernovich @Cernovich

SCOTUS is the last remaining 🇺🇸 institution with mystique. Today was a bad day for the Court’s legitimacy, with multiple justices spreading disinformation about children on ventilators and daily cases exceeding total US population.

Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke

There were a number of instances in recent years that opened the eyes of ordinary folks to incompetence, bias and corruption in the judiciary (eg Sullivan, Michael Kwan or the 131 federal judges who didn’t declare financial conflicts). But today feels like a watershed moment.

Techno Fog @Techno_Fog

It’s hard to convey the disrespect showed by Justices Sotomayor and Breyer today. 100 million Americans are affected by the Biden COVID mandates. And these Justices showed up unprepared, inventing COVID numbers to support whatever legal conclusion they’ve already reached.

Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke

Sometimes you need to just tell people in their faces how foolish and misinformed they are, even if they are Supreme Court justices. That time was today.

Election Wizard @ElectionWiz

Overall, the anti-mandate lawyers did well today. They held some punches, particularly when the Left-wing justices put out misinformation on Covid. Personally, I would've preferred the lawyers to push back on some of the glaring errors, but I understand their restraint.

Sounds like the NYT is telling its readers the Biden OSHA vaccine mandate is going down

I know the liberal judges still seem to have no idea that the vaccines don’t end infection or transmission, but they aren’t the majority.

Alex Berenson

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I suspect the OSHA mandate goes. What happens to health-care workers may depend on whether Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh know the science well enough to understand how useless the vaccines have become.