The stupefying specious statements of the three leftist members of The Supremes during the special Jan. 7 hearing on The Regime’s unprecedented vaccination diktats for private-sector and health care workers is now a matter of public record. The following is in brief what Matthew Vadum published on frontpagemag.com.
It took just a few hours of people tuning into the live broadcast of oral arguments to open a window into why the federal government—filled as it is with ignoramuses, posterior-osculators [ass-kissers], charlatans, and grifters—doesn’t work.
From across social media, the fake-news too, came ridicule for Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan for their astonishing ignorance about COVID-19, as if these jurists obtained all their news from the professional misinformers at the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC.”
The Babylon Bee best captured the flavor of The Supreme’s music with their publication of a piece titled “Nation’s Fate Now In The Hands Of 8 Dummies And Clarence Thomas.”
Satire? Doubtful based on the abysmal quality of the justices’ apparent soliloquys.
“Hyperbolic?” Not nearly enough. We’re talking interpretation of the constitution here. And it’s being done through grape-colored glasses.
You already well know what’s at issue here—conflicted decisions: the striking down of a mandate forcing employers with at least 100 employees to submit to vaccination while simultaneously allowing to stand the mandate compelling the vaccination of more than 10 million employees at health care facilities that take part in Medicare and Medicaid—so let’s quickly review the unbrilliant, profound, embarrassing words of the three justices.
First, Sonia Sotomayor, who turns out to be the most radically misinformed about the Chinese plague.
Sotomayor insisted the private-sector mandate was necessary because the “Omicron [variant] is as deadly and causes as much serious disease in the unvaccinated as Delta did … 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 and many on ventilators.”
In fact, Omicron is considered less severe than Delta and federal data show there had been only “3,342 confirmed pediatric hospitalizations with COVID-19 across the US as of Friday—making the justice’s math off by a factor of nearly 30,” the New York Post noted.
The 100,000 figure is so egregiously wrong that even the leftists at the Washington Post and PolitiFact felt they had to shiv Sotomayor. WaPo awarded her statement “Four Pinocchios” and PolitiFact rated it “False.”
The justice said, “I’m not sure I understand the distinction why the states would have the power” to enact something like Biden’s private-sector mandate “but the federal government wouldn’t.”
Answer: The police powers in the various state constitutions and in the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states that “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
These police powers, to use constitutional parlance, include the ability to regulate the health, safety, and morals of the population.
But Sotomayor cut off Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers after he said, “the federal government has no police power.”
She insisted the federal government has “power with respect to protecting the health and safety of workers.”
Finally, somehow Sotomayor reasons that this mandate isn’t a mandate. But enough about the wise Latina.
Second, Stephen Breyer, who is 83 and under intense pressure from the Left to retire during this current illegal masquerading leader’s tenure.
There were “750 million new cases yesterday or close to that is a lot,” and “…unbelievable that it could be in the public interest to suddenly stop these vaccinations,” said Breyer who was appointed in 1994 by then-President Bill Clinton.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the current total U.S. population is only 332.4 million.
Breyer also claimed that the nation’s hospitals were “full almost to the point of the maximum,” a statement that doesn’t even remotely approximate the truth.
Of the 714,247 inpatient beds in 5,607 hospitals reporting, 555,883 were in use as of Jan. 11, which means only 77.8 percent of the beds were occupied, according to data provided by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. Only 145,982 of inpatient beds were in use for COVID-19.
After U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, a former Miss Idaho 2004, laid out the upcoming timeline for enforcing the OSHA mandate, Breyer jumped in, implying vaccinations are 100 percent effective in stopping COVID-19.
“So if we delay that one day—maybe I’m wrong, and please tell me if I am—but the numbers I read is when they issued this order, there were approximately 70-something-thousand new cases every day,” Breyer told Prelogar.
“And yesterday, there were close to 750,000. So, if we delay it a day, if it were to have effect, then 750,000 more people will have COVID who otherwise, if we didn’t delay it, would not have.”
But even the CDC admits that vaccinations are not foolproof.
“COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing infection, serious illness, and death. Most people who get COVID-19 are unvaccinated. However, since vaccines are not 100% effective at preventing infection, some people who are fully vaccinated will still get COVID-19,” according to CDC’s website.
Third, Elena Kagan, who was appointed by Obama in 2010, implied vaccinated people cannot spread SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19.
In a discussion of the health care worker mandate, Kagan said the government told health care providers, “the one thing you can’t do is to kill your patients, so you have … to get vaccinated so that you’re not transmitting the disease that can kill elderly Medicare patients, that can kill sick Medicaid patients. I mean, that seems like a pretty basic infection prevention measure. You can’t be the carrier of disease.”
Vaccination only reduces the risk of a person spreading COVID-19, the CDC acknowledges.
Kagan also claimed, “the best way” to stop the spread of the virus is “for people to get vaccinated,” and the “second best way” is to “wear masks.”
“Neither claim is true,” Kaylee McGhee White writes at the Washington Examiner.
“While the vaccines appear to slow the spread of COVID-19 and reduce the chance of death, there is absolutely no evidence that they prevent transmission, especially not against the much more contagious omicron variant.”
Kagan, Breyer, and especially Sotomayor amply demonstrated at the recent hearing why they are unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. Either they could not retain the lessons of their homework or they were negligent in their failure to do their homework.
Picture the magnitude of the preceding statement: These three are Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court—they don’t have to do their own research. Clerks place the materials in front of them. ALL they have to do is read and absorb the information. They should then be able to speak smartly, yes?
Final thought: Imagine having been a young law clerk and one day applying for a job with the questionable-at-best resume bullet item that you clerked for Justice Sotomayor, Justice Breyer, or Justice Kagan. Exactly. Useless. Sadly, better left unsaid.
Each day these three Bozos remain on the bench America is in peril.
