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Supreme Court, Covid, and reactions
Justice Gorsuch incorrectly says "I believe" flu kills hundreds of thousands, correct number tens of thousands, and people go nuts. He's displaying his ignorance, spreading disinformation, making false statements, etc.
UPDATE: it's reported that was a transcriber's error. Gorsuch said the flu kills "hundreds, thousands" not "hundreds of thousands" per year.
Justice Sotomayor says Covid has put 100,000 children in the hospital, actual number 700-3,300, and nobody seems much concerned.
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Upon further review, sounds like a comma between hundreds & thousands. Gorsuch spoke correctly, but never let truth get in the way of a good story and all that.
They're both getting hammered from what I can see, unless you live in a news bubble.
I guess inside my cynical exterior there is still a bit of naïveté. I really expected SCOTUS members to do better 'due diligence' and get good information. If their staff is feeding them this, they need new staff.
Jarhead: "I really expected SCOTUS members to do better 'due diligence' and get good information."
I really expected SCOTUS Justices to not introduce their own evidence, or to make arguments on policy. We have a Congress, or so I'm told, to do that.
SCOTUS's only consideration is Constitutionality.
HeHeHe! Two SCOTUS members with egg on their faces due attempt to advocate a political stance in lieu of a legal point of fact from the Bench. Tsk-Tsk.
It looks like the SCOTUS amended the transcript to show that he did NOT say "hundreds of thousands" but rather "hundreds or thousands". They made no changes to Sotomayor's idiotic comments, however.
Nobody expects Democrts to be accurate with figures.
The words of our “Betters” are reality and the truth. What we know is irrelevant. The details are irrelevant to the court case but it lets us know that the “Law” comes in second place to their feelings.