One would think a United States Supreme Court hearing containing emergency oral arguments about a federal mandate that impacts more than 100 million Americans in the workforce would mean the justices would be well prepared and full briefed with the latest information.
Alas, in an embarrassing display of judicial outlooks, activism and incompetence, the leftists on the court appeared to just be making stuff up in order to protect the current White House occupant.
Justice Bryer cited 750 million Americans infected yesterday as his reference point to justify his support for Joe Biden. Unfortunately for justice Bryer there are only 350 million Americans alive. It would be an ordinarily embarrassing mistake if the issues were not so serious. However, given the nature of the constitutional issue here, these types of statements only reflect the abject nonsensical nature of a highly politicized supreme court.
Taking Bryer’s ball of insanity across the finish line, Justice Sotomayor, another leftist communist in a black robe, stated: “100,000 kids are currently in the hospital”, FALSE; that the “Omicron variant has been more deadly than Delta,” FALSE; COVID deaths are at an “all time high”, FALSE; and worse yet, “OSHA’s regulatory authority is part of the federal police power,” again FALSE.
Additionally, as to the aspect of the argument surrounding Monday’s federal deadline of mask enforcement for all unvaccinated workers, all of the leftist communists on the court held firm in their belief that masks stop the virus, false. This issue has even been conceded by officials in the same administration now tasked with enforcing a mask mandate they admit is not based in science.
As TechnoFog accurately noted in his immediate reaction: “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.” Techno is unfortunately accurately stating the obvious.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a diabetic since childhood, didn’t even appear in the courtroom, choosing to remain in her office at the court and take part remotely. Two lawyers, representing Ohio and Louisiana, argued by telephone after recent positive Covid-19 tests.
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices seemed divided during an oral argument hearing on Friday as plaintiffs challenged President Joe Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate, just days before it is slated to take effect for workplaces with 100 or more employees.
The first attorney to speak Friday was Scott Keller, representing the National Federation of Independent Business that is challenging the mandate enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Keller asked the justices to “immediately stay” the agency’s Emergency Temporary Standard before Monday.
Justice Clarence Thomas opened by asking: “How are we to decide when an emergency temporary standard or emergency temporary standards are necessary?”
The liberal-minded justices primarily questioned the legitimacy of arguments against the mandate, citing that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect hospital capacities. They also noted the inherent ease of spread of COVID-19 among peers. Meanwhile, the majority of conservative-leaning justices raised more skepticism about OSHA’s ability to issue a nationwide vaccine-or-test mandate. (more)
There is a glimmer of hope, as noted by the Associated Press: “The Covid circumstances did not appear to outweigh the views of the court’s six conservatives that the administration overstepped its authority in its vaccine-or-testing requirement for businesses with at least 100 employees.
“This is something the federal government has never done before,” the chief justice, John Roberts, said, casting doubt on the administration’s argument that a half-century established law, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, confers such broad authority.”
Justice Roberts, Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Coney-Barrett, probably hold the key to the outcome in both cases (mask and vaccine mandate). Unfortunately, all three have been receptive to state-level vaccine requirements in preceding cases. Whether they will support the first ever federal vaccine mandate, is yet to be determined.
Ugh.
Covid statistics have absolutely nothing to do with this Constitutional issue; it was a political muddying of the waters. What the two Justices did was to imply that “the end justifies the means” – again having nothing to do with their job!! Additionally, the Justices’ are supposed to be listening to testimony, NOT giving it. Every time they pull this crap it proves how inappropriate it is for them to sit in this respected body.
” to sit in this respected body.”
Kevin, “respected body” is at least a decade old description of the supreme court.
It is now revered to as the “not-so-supreme-court” after it dodged (Justice Thomas nailed it) the 2020 election fraud both before and after the election trying to give cover to the insertion of creepy joe into the office of President of the United States, per the commie demands.
Best up date your adjectives, or not, your choice.
They are now squarely in the camp of the commie coup plotters, probably with their own commie membership cards in their wallets.
And all the while we still see how much maligned McCarthy is, even though he was absolutely correct, when he exposed ALL THIS in the 50’s…
I am prompted to think who condemned McCarthy back then. Why I believe it was the socialist press.
Recall one of the founders of BLM admitted being trained by a Weather Underground terrorist.
It’s true that 0bama cut his political teeth in Bill Ayer’s basement, and it has been said that Ayers was the ghost author of 0bama’s book, ‘Dreams of My Father’. Another deliberately hidden fact is that Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, raised Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s commie DA that refuses to prosecute most criminals arrested in San Francisco, since he was 14 months old, as his parents had both gone to jail on murder and terrorism charges in 1981.
Boudin was named Chesa by his parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, to honor convicted murderer Joanne Chesimard. She led the Black Liberation Army when it was a cop-hunting group that assassinated at least six police officers in the early 1970s. Now renamed Assata Shakur, she escaped from prison in 1979 and lives in Cuba, which refuses to extradite her. Kathy Boudin assisted in the armed robbery that funded Chesimard’s jail break.
Boudin’s parents took part in dozens of bombings with their white Weatherman terrorist group in its declared war on the United States from 1970 to 1975. These were the folks who bastardized the cry of “peace now” in the Vietnam anti-war movement into “piece now!” (Piece was slang for a gun.) Their war’s avowed purpose was to aid black revolutionaries in creating a communist government. From 1980 to 1981 Boudin’s parents aided the Black Liberation Army as it carried out a string of “expropriations”, meaning armed robberies.
Boudin was adopted by the former leaders of the Weathermen, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, after his own parents left him with a babysitter while they took part in the robbery of a Brinks armored car. Dohrn and Ayers had similarly saddled their own sons with revolutionary names: Zayd Osceola, to honor Chesimard’s Black Liberation Army partner in cop-killing and the Seminole Indian leader, and Malik Cochise, combining Malcolm X’s Arabic name and an Apache war chief.
Funny how all of these commie terrorists ended up being bankrolled by none other than George Soros!
Thanks for the info. Astounding.
The 60’s generation killed America. The original cancer cell that metastasized to the body politic started there. Not every person of that generation but, enough of em to matter.
Born in ’46 I can tell you, U R Rite! But it d/n start there. The hate for America was seeded by the communist scum brought in by Roosevelt in ’32. They were the parents of the scum of the 6o’s.
Guillotine – after a five-minute fair trial of course. How did we get stuck with such uninformed, lazy, good-for-nothing so-called justices? I think every judge in our country (with the possible exception of Rittenhouse’s judge) is totally corrupt.
Agreed, Kevin and I understand that the lawyers fighting the mandates assumed they were there to argue the constitutional issues. However, I was very disappointed that not one of them knew the vax statistics well enough to correct the hugely false “facts” being spewed by Breyer, Kagen and Soromayor.
-Biggest Pharmaceutical Settlements in History
https://www.enjuris.com/blog/resources/largest-pharmaceutical-settlements-lawsuits/
Diversity appointments were invented to guilt people into justifying incompetent hires, which then manifested and infested the highest positions
-Study used to justify UK school mask rules fails to prove they work
… this is incredible!!!???
We Will Let God Judge Them. But it will be done in short order.
And that’s why they should be mandated as a drug trial treatment /s. The drug trial trial is over, at best it might have stopped alpha, at worst it’s wrong footing your system when you encounter the wild virus, making you MORE susceptible now. As predicted, but those whom understood this leaking narrow band mRNA treatment – months ago. And yet the abuse of the word ‘vaccine’ continues imagine the polio vaccine – making polio spread faster?
-The Public Health Legacy of the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak (2013)
discovermagazine.com/health/the-public-health-legacy-of-the-1976-swine-flu-outbreak
NO ONE ADDRESSED THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM—-THE VAX DOESN’T IMMUNIZE OR WORK AGAINST COVID!! In essence no one is Vaxed. Also it is still EUA, the FDA approved Pfizer is NOT available in the US for a few years into the future as it needs further testing !! Also it is illegal to mandate an EUA Vax, due to it’s “experimental” nature and used only in emergency situations (common sense). Should this have gone to the Supreme Court when there is a Federal law against mandating EUA Vaxes? Can our law makers PLEASE enforce the existing laws on the books, who is in charge of that? They should at least use this Federal law as a precedent to shoot down Biden’s “illegal “mandate before the Supreme Court.
MeJane…we have no rule of law anymore.
Fact don’t matter to SCOTUS, once granted your case becomes a vessel into which policy will be poured into. Our best result, is going to be a punt on the federalism issue (staying silent on whether the federal government has this power) and holding that congress in this case, did not grant the power or OHSA or MCA, and if they want to, that is a matter for another day whether they could.
Hans Mahncke
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Recap of what Supreme Court justices claim as fact:
– 99% of hospitalized are unvaccinated
– over 100,000 children hospitalized
– 750 million positive cases yesterday
– vaccines stop transmission
– Omicron deadlier than Delta
– OSHA has broad police power
Did I miss anything?
2/. Some more:
-best policy is to get vaccinated
-“second best is to wear masks”
-Covid is “bloodborne”
-hospitalization growing by factor of 10
-masks mandate is no different from vaccine mandate
-humans are like dangerous machines spewing virus
-forced vaccines is political policy
3/. Also a correction:
A bunch of folks reported that Breyer said 99% of hospitalized are unvaccinated. He said 90%.
7:41 PM · Jan 7, 2022
Beyond Embarassing.
What a pitiful group of lightweights.
I say, if these Justices DO NOT GET IT RIGHT, everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, Must, Must, just say F It, and DO NOT COMPLY.
Despite what’s come to be “accepted” or “believed”, the Supreme Court is NOT A HIGHER BRANCH, it is an equal branch, and the Constitution DOES NOT give the Supreme Court the right to be final arbiter – it, the Supreme Court, gave itself that authority (the Marbury vs. Madison case?), and gradually it came to be accepted.
Well “rules” and “mandates” and “precedence” in everything else we thought we knew seems to be easily broken, unchained, at some whomever’s wim, a Mayor here, a Governor there, an AG there, why should a Supreme Court ruling not be subject to same?
Nation’s Fate Now In The Hands Of 8 Dummies And Clarence Thomas
https://babylonbee.com/news/nations-fate-now-in-the-hands-of-8-dummies-and-clarence-thomas
I laughed my … off on the concluding line: “Smith was interrupted as a short yellow bus arrived to take Justice Sotomayor home.”
Sorry, I know the article reads “oral arguments” but somehow all I saw was “an*l arguements!” Probably more truth than fiction! It’ll be interesting to see which way the wind is blowing through SCOTUS!
I’m surrounded by adults in Velcro sneakers codling non english speaking foreign nationalist that keep peeing on my car tires or in my bushes.. you can bet none of them have been jabbed.. hope their tails catch fire soon ..
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/the-powerful-pfizer-presentation
The Pfizer corruption is beyond comprehension! And still the push to get everyone to get the jab. Does anyone think that Lord Fauci has gotten the jab?
Not I.
Roberts, Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett are quislings. And the jury is still out on Gorsuch.
That said, let’s not forget that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett were hand-picked and vetted by the Deep State Senate staffers.
Trump’s role in this as POTUS was rather ceremonial; he was given a list of preapproved and vetted candidates the Senate was willing to confirm to pick a few names to formally appoint them.
This is how the Deep State has been protecting itself for decades. Remember, the vast majority of Article III judges are “sleepers.”
I’m truly disgusted every time I hear “liberal” or “conservative” judge.
I’m disgusted because it’s true.
But how can one judge anyone or anything if they already know they’ll vote for the outcome they want.
Does anyone believe in the Constitution of the United States anymore?
🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
Now we can add “IGNORANT” judges to the list.
Perhaps I am totally ignorant on this, but I always thought that the purpose of the Supreme Court was to decide whether issues are supportive of, or contrary to, the US Constitution. I did not think that it was within their remit to decide on the number of hospitalizations, the virulence of a virus, the number of deaths, or any other medical issue. Add the fact that it appears that the ‘leftist’ justices are either bent on protecting the federal government, or get their information solely from MSM rather than legitimate sources, and you end up with a Supreme Court that has totally lost its way, its purpose and the respect of thinking Americans.
you are not ignorant. You know what you know! The fact that all of this crap is even on our radar tells you how over the top this all is. These Supreme Court justices are not playing with a full deck!
“The Constitution… meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other.
“But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804
“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
–Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820.
“This member of the Government was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs.
“But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 1825
“[How] to check these unconstitutional invasions of… rights by the Federal judiciary?
“Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift.
“For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?”
–Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1821
Help me out here:
The mRNA shots do not stop recipients from contracting & spreading covid-19, even when boosted; so what is the point of the jab again?
you ansered your own question….
however, there is some data that vax helps reduce the symptoms. I believe this is true, yet good luck getting any clean data to help determine the risk/reward.
my conclusion is vax probably makes sense for SOME people 65+ with pre-existing conditions. everyone else probably has better odds playing Russian roulette with a half loaded revolver
The news wants to keep you glued to this story as if we have a chance here to stop this horrendous administration. This is a fact that is as plain as gravity. Justice Roberts will side with the administration, not a surprise, but so will Amy Barrett. She has decisions already on the books that have upheld state mandates, why would she be any different federally? She denied the Indiana school kids hearings on it also, more recently at the federal lvl. She believes in these mandates to her very core.
We lost this before it even started.
What appalls me is that the Supreme Court is discussing “facts” about covid. They have become COMPLETELY political.
They are completely off base here and instead should be discussing the only facts that should ever matter with regards to any case presented to the Supreme Court – the US Constitution and the laws passed by Congress. Everything else should not matter. Does the Constitution allow this? Has Congress passed a law to allow this?
The answer in this case regarding mandates is a resounding NO!!!
The debate should be about the constitutionality of such mandates, not a problem solving session on how to control a virus. It doesn’t matter how many cases there are, how many hospitalizations there are, how effective masks are, how safe “vaccines” are. None of this matters. The question is about constitutionality of mandating behavior of the people, and mandating medical treatments for healthy people.
We seem to have a world filled with leaders that all believe they are gods and have the ability to control the spread of a virus – if they could only control the behavior of their people, just a little bit more.
The Supreme Court has become yet another world leader with a narcissistic personality disorder.
Now this is absolute truth, 100%!
If we are to depend on Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Coney-Barrett to do the right thing in this farce, we might as well go get in line for our death jabs now
Or devise a plan to defend our sovereignty with our lives
Like plan B better.
Been almost 2 years with “the Covid”.
Still not acknowledging “natural immunity” (which is superior to vaccinated immunity), still calling Covid shot a “vaccine” when 2x shot and 1x boosted still get Covid?
Which begs the question, if you take 3 shots and still get the disease, were you not “unvaccinated”?
I know, I know.
But curious minds want to know.
Clowns in gowns. To give them any respect whatsoever is to have not been paying attention to their behavior……ever.
I find it amazing that outright lies and nonsensical propaganda surrounding this virus have people living in fear and hysteria. The Covid porn hype on television and in the media is non stop. This virus is no more dangerous than the seasonal flu. People keep stepping up for more vaccines that are totally worthless and dangerous. I had no idea Americans were so stupid! I know four people who have suffered serious side effects from these vaccines. One, a family relative. It’s their own fault. They have nothing coming! One close family friend, whose 33 year old daughter is completely disabled due to a vaccine reaction, is willing to give doctors and the medical establishment who did this to their daughter a complete pass!! People with this mnd set deserve everything they get…. and more. Many, who have submitted themselves to this vaccine experiment, want others to get the same treatment as them even though they would not do it again. One has to ask, “Just how sick and brain washed is the American public?”
agree.
I refuse to engage with anyone under 65 who thinks “boosters” or vax is still the silver bullet for China virus.
EVEN IF they were 100% safe, they are clealry not 100% effective!
Don’t get me started on the safety factor!
The article suggests the socialist judges were attempting to defend the socialist administration. This must be false as America has three equal BUT SEPARATE branches of govt. So the idea that SC judges, who as CJ Roberts has reminded us are only only only interested in following constitutional law must not be true.
The United States of America is completely compromised…
Order the dumpsters…
I think that if we actually had an opposition party to the democrats, Sotomayer, Breyer and Roberts would all have been impeached before now. The line in the article that mentions the “six conservative” justices would be funny if it wasn’t such a serious matter. There’s only one conservative on the SCOTUS, Y’all might disagree over which one it is, so I’ll leave it up to y’all.
What about Informed Consent ?
Not one lawyer brought that up.
You can’t give Informed Consent if you don’t know what is in the vaccine.
Nobody knows what the vaccine ingredients are therefore NO INFORMED CONSENT.
Secondly what about the Nuremberg Code ?
You can’t mandate an experimental medical treatment.
There are OPEN and SHUT cases.
The fact that there is a debate means we have no science, no logic and no justice.