Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor opened up about her friendship with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during a Thursday appearance at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
During <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sonia-sotomayor">Sotomayor&#8217;s</a> appearance, the liberal justice was asked about how she maintains relationships with justices who have different legal philosophies than her, specifically the conservative <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/clarence-thomas">Thomas</a>.
&#8220;I try to find the good in everybody,&#8221; Sotomayor <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbradner/status/1583264965674532864?s=20&amp;t=l9RRECXmT-Z4fwWXkJIoBA">shared</a>, according to CNN&#8217;s Eric Bradner. &#8220;Because if I can treat them as people with good things inside of me, they can feel it. They can feel that there are things inside them that I value. And they&#8217;re more wiling to talk to me &#8230; and do it in a respectful way, where we can value each other.&#8221;
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor did a talk in Chicago tonight hosted by Roosevelt University. She was asked how she maintains relationships with judges she disagrees with — Clarence Thomas, in particular. Here’s what she said: <a href="https://t.co/jCy3J0eoEy">pic.twitter.com/jCy3J0eoEy</a>
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&#8220;I have disagreed more with him [Thomas] than with any other justice,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Which means we don&#8217;t come together on many cases. And yet I can tell you that I spend time with him, understanding that he is one of the few justices who knows practically everybody in our building. He knows their name, he knows the things about their life, what their family is suffering. He&#8217;ll tell me, you know that person&#8217;s wife is sick right now, or that person&#8217;s child is having difficulty.&#8221;
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She’s a Justice, author, activist, intellectual and peacemaker. What a great end to my Chicago visit to hear Sonia Sotomayor speak to <a href="https://twitter.com/RooseveltU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RooseveltU</a> students/guests! She was endearing speaking directly to attendees. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DiversityandInclusion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DiversityandInclusion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/socialjustice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#socialjustice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RepresentationMatters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RepresentationMatters</a> <a href="https://t.co/MRnrWEZdlH">pic.twitter.com/MRnrWEZdlH</a>
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&#8220;There&#8217;s no other justice who does that,&#8221; Sotomayor continued. &#8220;I try, but he does it better. He cares about people. Now, he cares on legal interests differently. And he sees those legal issues much differently than I do.  I tell people, you know Clarence believes, just like him, because he grew up very, very poor, that everyone is capable of picking themselves up by their bootstraps. I understand that some people can&#8217;t reach their bootstraps. That&#8217;s a fundamental difference in how we view what the law can or should or does do for people. But I can appreciate him.&#8221;
Sotomayor was appointed by former President Barack Obama in May 2009 and has served since August 2009. Thomas was appointed by the late-former President George H. W. Bush in 1991 to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall and has served ever since.
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Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/justice-sotomayor-missed-the-mark-on-covid-19-and-kids-by-over-95000-the-view-hosts-blow-it-off-it-happens/">Sonia Sotomayor</a> made it clear on Thursday that despite differing judicial philosophies, she held her colleague Justice Clarence Thomas in the highest regard.
Sotomayor made the comments during a public speech at the American Constitution Society, speaking to the audience about the man she called &#8220;friend&#8221; in spite of their fairly regular differences of opinion.
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“Justice Thomas is the one justice in the building that literally knows every employee’s name, every one of them. . . . he is a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution, about the people who work there — about people.” &#8211; Justice Sotomayor <a href="https://t.co/Pz4TKWeFi3">pic.twitter.com/Pz4TKWeFi3</a>
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&#8220;I suspect I have probably disagreed with him more than with any other justice, that we have not joined each other&#8217;s opinions more than anybody else,&#8221; Sotomayor said of Thomas. &#8220;And yet, Justice Thomas is the one justice in the building that literally knows every employee’s name — every one of them. And not only does he know their names, he knows their families&#8217; names and their histories. He&#8217;s the first one who will go up to someone when you&#8217;re walking with him and say, &#8216;Is your son okay? How&#8217;s your daughter doing in college?&#8217; He&#8217;s the first one that when my stepfather died, sent me flowers in Florida. He is a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution, about the people who work there, but about people.&#8221;
&#8220;He has a different vision than I do about how to help people and about their responsibilities to help themselves,&#8221; Sotomayor said, adding that Thomas truly believed that anyone could pull themselves up by their bootstraps — but her opinion was that some people needed just a little extra help in order to get to their bootstraps.
&#8220;But I think we share a common understanding about people and kindness toward them. That&#8217;s why I can be friends with him and still continue our daily battle over our difference of opinions in cases,&#8221; Sotomayor concluded, prompting laughter when she over-emphasized the words &#8220;daily battle.&#8221;
Sotomayor&#8217;s comments come amid calls for <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/media-claims-ginni-thomas-was-agitating-about-trumps-election-loss-on-a-listserv-thats-not-what-happened/">Thomas&#8217;s wife Ginni</a> to stand before the January 6 Committee — and the wait for a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/abortion-activist-arrested-for-chaining-himself-to-scotus-fence-claims-authorities-dropped-charges-out-of-fear-of-public-perception/">Supreme Court ruling</a> in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization.
&#8220;Supreme Court Justices are patriots. They are not about politics. Watching Justice Sotomayor talk this way about Justice Thomas is beautiful. They are patriots, even when we, and they, disagree with opinions. The late Justice Scalia and Justice Ginsburg loved each other,&#8221; Carmine Sabia <a href="https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1537953525275144192">remarked</a> in a tweet.
And while many agreed that it was refreshing to see two justices who disagreed — so often and so fully — still be respectful of each other as human beings, there were also a number who could not reconcile their feelings about Thomas.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t doubt that Justice Thomas knows every employee&#8217;s name. He certainly knew Anita Hill&#8217;s name when she worked for him,&#8221; Aura Bogado <a href="https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1537935278999932929">tweeted</a>.
Noah Berlatsky <a href="https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1537951663108943872">added</a>, &#8220;People are pointing out the issues with Ginni, but it&#8217;s also worth noting that Clarence Thomas has been very credibly accused of workplace sexual harassment.&#8221;

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested in December 2021 that the court would not &#8220;survive the stench&#8221; if it upheld a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks.
Sotomayor weighed in on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court case involving a 2018 Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks, addressing whether bans on abortion before fetal viability are constitutional.
“Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?” the justice <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/583814-sotomayor-suggests-court-wouldnt-survive-stench-if-abortion-rights/amp/">asked</a> an attorney who backed the Mississippi law in late 2021, suggesting that the Supreme Court would be seen as highly politicized. “I don’t see how it is possible.”
On Monday evening, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">Politico revealed</a> a draft opinion showing that the justices will likely rule to overturn Roe v. Wade. The news has sparked nationwide protests and frenzy as pro-abortion rights supporters grapple with the potential that Roe v. Wade could soon be overturned.
Experts and political commentators on the right <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-supporters-leaked-supreme-court-draft-to-intimidate-the-court-pro-life-advocates-say">have suggested</a> that the draft opinion was leaked, most likely by a progressive Supreme Court clerk, in efforts to intimidate the court and change its decision.
It has not yet been determined who the leaker is.
“The leak appears to be totally political in nature, not only intended to damage the Court and pressure the justices, but more immediately to incite Democrats to push their laundry list of terrible anti-life ideas, including blowing up the filibuster and attempting to codify abortion violence at the federal level prior to the November elections,” Katie Glenn, Government Affairs Counsel at Americans United for Life (AUL), told The Daily Wire late Monday evening.
The draft majority opinion, which is not final, says Roe v. Wade was egregiously wrong. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito wrote, according to POLITICO. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Judicial Crisis Network&#8217;s President Carrie Severino <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-legal-experts-call-for-justices-to-release-roe-v-wade-decision">said</a> the unprecedented <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">news</a> merits an “unprecedented response” — that the “Court should release its majority opinion as soon as possible.”
“Obviously no one can actually force the Chief Justice’s hand,” Severino told The Daily Wire, “but he may want to release the opinion early to avoid exposing the Court to further pressure and intimidation tactics that risk undermining the Court as an institution as a result of the draft opinion hanging out there for what could be months.”
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board also discussed Tuesday how fast the court should move to release its decision.
&#8220;There’s an argument for getting it out fast to make it a fait accompli,&#8221; the WSJ Editorial Board <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-supreme-court-leak-on-roe-v-wade-samuel-alito-john-roberts-abortion-draft-opinion-11651605792?mod=opinion_lead_pos1">said</a>. &#8220;Politico said the Alito draft was circulated in February, so the Justices have had ample time to absorb it and respond. We hate to say this, but some abortion fanatic could decide to commit an act of violence to stop a 5-4 ruling. It’s an awful thought, but we live in fanatical times.&#8221;

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U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch released a joint statement Wednesday refuting a report from NPR, calling it simply &#8220;false.&#8221;
Notably, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073428376/supreme-court-justices-arent-scorpions-but-not-happy-campers-either">reported</a> Tuesday that Sotomayor was refusing to do her job in-person because Gorsuch, who is vaccinated and boosted like Sotomayor, is refusing to wear a mask after being asked.
&#8220;Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;It is false.&#8221;
&#8220;While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends,&#8221; the statement added.
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JUST IN. SCOTUS releases a short joint statement from Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch:
&quot;Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends.&quot;
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The report started to crack Tuesday evening, when Fox News reported that their source refuted the claim.
Speaking to Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier, network host and reporter Shannon Bream noted that the NPR report said Sotomayor &#8220;did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked.”
“Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other Justices to mask up,&#8221; the NPR report claimed.
&#8220;It then says that Justice Gorsuch who normally sits right next to Sotomayor on the bench has repeatedly refused to do so and that’s forced Justice Sotomayor to operate remotely from her office for arguments and conferences,&#8221; Bream outlined.
&#8220;I am told that is not accurate,&#8221; the Fox News host asserted.
&#8220;A source at the Supreme Court says there has been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other Justices begin wearing masks to arguments,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;The source further stated Justice Sotomayor did not make any such request to Justice Gorsuch. I&#8217;m told, given that fact, there was also no refusal by Justice Gorsuch.&#8221;
&#8220;The Justices are all vaccinated and boosted and they do test before taking the bench for arguments,&#8221; Bream noted.
Partial transcript <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2022/01/18/shannon-bream-busts-fake-news-npr-gorsuch-spiteful-masking">via</a> NewsBusters: 
<blockquote>BRET BAIER: You know, Shannon, there is another mask story at the Supreme Court grabbing headlines about a dispute apparently over the justices wearing or not wearing masks. What have you been able to find out?
SHANNON BREAM: Okay. So, NPR published this story, Bret, saying that Justice Sotomayor, who has diabetes and has regularly been wearing a mask on the bench during arguments, expressed that she, quote, “Did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked.”
The story goes on to say, “Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other Justices to mask up.” It then says that Justice Gorsuch who normally sits right next to Sotomayor on the bench has repeatedly refused to do so and that’s forced Justice Sotomayor to operate remotely from her office for arguments and conferences.  I am told that is not accurate.
A source at the Supreme Court says there has been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other Justices begin wearing masks to arguments. The source further stated Justice Sotomayor did not make any such request to Justice Gorsuch. I&#8217;m told, given that fact, there was also no refusal by Justice Gorsuch.
The Justices are all vaccinated and boosted and they do test before taking the bench for arguments. Bret.
BAIER: There you go. Straight in and out for us. We will see you tonight, Shannon. Thanks.</blockquote>

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NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073428376/supreme-court-justices-arent-scorpions-but-not-happy-campers-either">reported</a> Tuesday that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was refusing to do her job in-person because fellow Justice Neil Gorsuch, who is vaccinated and boosted like Sotomayor, is refusing to wear a mask after being asked.
The report, however, was quickly contradicted by reporting from Fox News&#8217; Shannon Bream Tuesday evening.
Speaking to Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier, Bream noted that the NPR report said Sotomayor &#8220;did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked.”
“Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other Justices to mask up,&#8221; the NPR report claimed.
&#8220;It then says that Justice Gorsuch who normally sits right next to Sotomayor on the bench has repeatedly refused to do so and that’s forced Justice Sotomayor to operate remotely from her office for arguments and conferences,&#8221; Bream outlined.
&#8220;I am told that is not accurate,&#8221; the Fox News host asserted.
&#8220;A source at the Supreme Court says there has been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other Justices begin wearing masks to arguments,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;The source further stated Justice Sotomayor did not make any such request to Justice Gorsuch. I&#8217;m told, given that fact, there was also no refusal by Justice Gorsuch.&#8221;
&#8220;The Justices are all vaccinated and boosted and they do test before taking the bench for arguments,&#8221; Bream noted.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE<a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> Supreme Court reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/ShannonBream?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShannonBream</a> airs inaccurate reporting today by <a href="https://twitter.com/NinaTotenberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NinaTotenberg</a>:
“A source at the Supreme Court says there has been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other Justices begin wearing masks to arguments.” <a href="https://t.co/petcj6q1nK">pic.twitter.com/petcj6q1nK</a>
&mdash; 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1483590769806135297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-sotomayor-wont-attend-scotus-in-person-because-gorsuch-wont-wear-a-mask-report">The Daily Wire</a>, Sotomayor recently made false statements while hearing arguments regarding President Joe Biden&#8217;s vaccine mandates for private businesses and health care workers.
“We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators,&#8221; the justice falsely stated.
“The number is not 100,000, it’s roughly 3,500 in hospitals now,&#8221; Baier corrected.
Partial transcript <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2022/01/18/shannon-bream-busts-fake-news-npr-gorsuch-spiteful-masking">via</a> NewsBusters: 
<blockquote>BRET BAIER: You know, Shannon, there is another mask story at the Supreme Court grabbing headlines about a dispute apparently over the justices wearing or not wearing masks. What have you been able to find out?
SHANNON BREAM: Okay. So, NPR published this story, Bret, saying that Justice Sotomayor, who has diabetes and has regularly been wearing a mask on the bench during arguments, expressed that she, quote, “Did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked.”
The story goes on to say, “Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other Justices to mask up.” It then says that Justice Gorsuch who normally sits right next to Sotomayor on the bench has repeatedly refused to do so and that’s forced Justice Sotomayor to operate remotely from her office for arguments and conferences.  I am told that is not accurate.
A source at the Supreme Court says there has been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other Justices begin wearing masks to arguments. The source further stated Justice Sotomayor did not make any such request to Justice Gorsuch. I&#8217;m told, given that fact, there was also no refusal by Justice Gorsuch.
The Justices are all vaccinated and boosted and they do test before taking the bench for arguments. Bret.
BAIER: There you go. Straight in and out for us. We will see you tonight, Shannon. Thanks.</blockquote>

Fox News: NPR Report About Justice Gorsuch Not Accurate

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is reportedly refusing to take part in person when the Supreme Court takes the bench for one reason: Justice Neil Gorsuch steadfastly refuses to wear a mask, according to a report.
Sotomayor, who has diabetes and has been the only justice to wear a mask since the Court resumed activity in fall of 2021, will only join the other justices through a microphone setup in her chambers. After Chief Justice John Roberts reportedly requested that all the justices wear a mask because of the Omicron surge, Gorsuch, who sits next to Sotomayor on the bench, refused, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073428376/supreme-court-justices-arent-scorpions-but-not-happy-campers-either">NPR</a>.
Fox News partly contradicted NPR&#8217;s report, stating Tuesday evening that a source at the Supreme Court &#8220;says there has been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other Justices begin wearing masks to arguments.”
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🚨EXCLUSIVE<a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> Supreme Court reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/ShannonBream?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShannonBream</a> airs inaccurate reporting today by <a href="https://twitter.com/NinaTotenberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NinaTotenberg</a>:
“A source at the Supreme Court says there has been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other Justices begin wearing masks to arguments.” <a href="https://t.co/petcj6q1nK">pic.twitter.com/petcj6q1nK</a>
&mdash; 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1483590769806135297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/supreme-court-gorsuch-refused-to-wear-mask-despite-sotomayors-covid-concerns.html">CNBC</a> noted that Gorsuch was &#8220;the only justice in the courtroom not to wear a mask during oral arguments,&#8221; while both Justices Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer participated remotely. &#8220;Breyer, at 83 the oldest member of the court, stayed out of the courtroom after a spokesperson said he received the results of a Covid test that was later determined to be a false positive,&#8221; the outlet reported.
Recently, Sotomayor made false statements when the Court considered President Joe Biden&#8217;s vaccine mandates for health care workers and for corporations that employ more than 100 people. Sotomayor claimed, &#8220;We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators.”
Fox News’ Bret Baier noted, “The number is not 100,000, it’s roughly 3500 in hospitals now.”
Even the leftist site <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/politifact-slams-liberal-justice-sotomayor-for-claiming-100k-kids-in-serious-condition-with-covid/">Politifact</a> acknowledged that Sotomayor’s statement was &#8220;False,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/07/sonia-sotomayor/fact-checking-sotomayor-kids-severe-covid-19/">writing</a> in part:
<blockquote>While the number of coronavirus-positive pediatric hospitalizations has risen with the spread of the omicron variant, Sotomayor’s number was way off. 
At the time she made this comment, federal data showed that fewer than 5,000 coronavirus-positive children were in the hospital. In fact, fewer than 83,000 children have been hospitalized for COVID-19 — cumulatively — since August 2020. 
There are over 100,000 cases among children, but scientists say that few of those are severe.</blockquote>
In February 2020, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) compared left-leaning Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to an “arsonist,” after she attacked the five justices on the court who ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay on a lower court&#8217;s nationwide injunction against its “public charge” rule. That rule banned non-citizens from receiving a green card if the government believed those non-citizens would rely on public assistance.
Sotomayor suggested the five conservative justices had demonstrated bias for the Trump administration. Cruz responded, &#8220;I read it a little bit like an arsonist complaining about the noise from the fire trucks.”
The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cruz-torches-sotomayor-like-an-arsonist-complaining-about-the-noise-from-the-fire-trucks/">explained</a>:
<blockquote>The progressive justice, Cruz suggested, has the whole problem backwards. The issue is not that the Trump administration is requesting emergency stays on lower court&#8217;s injunctions, or that the Supreme Court is granting those stays. The problem is that activist judges in lower courts are excessively blocking Trump administration policies. “
If you look to the facts of what’s happening with nationwide injunctions, I think it will explain why the Department of Justice has had to ask the Supreme Court to intervene over and over again,” said Cruz.</blockquote>
This article has been updated to include Fox News&#8217; report that Roberts did not issue a blanket request that justices be masked during oral arguments.

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor claimed last week that 100,000 children were in &#8220;serious condition&#8221; with COVID-19 — the real number is closer to 5000 — and the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; shrugged it off: &#8220;It happens.&#8221;
Sotomayor made the erroneous statement during oral arguments on President Joe Biden&#8217;s vaccine mandates — both for health care workers and for corporations with more than 100 employees:
&#8220;We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we&#8217;ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators,&#8221; she said.
Critics quickly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-sotomayor-false-covid-claim-100kchildren-serious-condition">refuted the claim</a> — The Washington Post called it &#8220;wildly incorrect,&#8221; citing data from the U.S. government suggesting that pediatric hospitalizations were around 5000, including observation beds. And Fox News anchor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bret-baier-challenges-cdc-director-to-call-out-justice-sotomayor-on-covid-misinformation/">Bret Baier</a> directly challenged Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cdc-director-cant-say-how-many-of-836000-deaths-are-from-covid-and-how-many-are-with-covid/">Rochelle Walensky</a> to correct Sotomayor&#8217;s statement, noting that the most recent data he had seen suggested there were some 3500 pediatric COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals.
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CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky refutes Justice Sotomayor&#8217;s statement that &#8220;over 100,000 children&#8221; are hospitalized due to COVID, with &#8220;many on ventilators&#8221;:
ANCHOR: &#8220;The number&#8217;s not 100,000. It&#8217;s roughly 3,500 in hospitals now?&#8221;
WALENSKY: &#8220;Yes.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/EGxFpWaBbH">pic.twitter.com/EGxFpWaBbH</a>
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1480184524667596801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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By all accounts, Sotomayor&#8217;s numbers were off — by upwards of 95,000 — but the hosts of &#8220;The View&#8221; argued that the real problem was that not enough people had gotten vaccinated yet.
&#8220;Well, first I just want to re-frame this a little bit about Justice Sotomayor,&#8221; Sunny Hostin began. &#8220;Well, you know, she may not be accurate for current hospitalizations in children she’s correct that we have more children in the hospital now more than ever before, and it’s certainly reflects the current cases in children, right now, we have 82,843 children sick with COVID. More than a 1,000 children have died from the virus. In addition, about 7.8 million children have caught COVID since the pandemic started, and so those are just the numbers and so, while fewer than 83,000 kids have been hospitalized with the virus we have kids sick with COVID more than we ever have before so that’s a real thing and those are real numbers.&#8221;
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The View&#8217;s Sunny Hostin says even though Justice Sotomayor was wrong on the facts, she was still right on the facts &#8220;That&#8217;s a real thing and those are real numbers.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/7XWbtFGfFj">pic.twitter.com/7XWbtFGfFj</a>
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1480607195410706435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hostin went on to say that she wasn&#8217;t ready to adopt the CDC&#8217;s new, relaxed guidance reducing the recommended isolation time from ten days to five and no longer requiring a negative test.
&#8220;I don’t believe that, I think that after five days if you’re not testing you can certainly still be infectious and you can certainly still spread the virus the other people, and I have to wonder, Whoopi, I mean, is it a business decision that was made? Is it that there’s a staff shortage? Is it that there&#8217;s a shortage of essential workers? And they just need people to get back to work because there are so many unvaccinated people? &#8230; I think people just need to get with the program and get vaccinated.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to say, you know, about Sotomayor — Justice Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor — I think she made a mistake in her numbers, she’s not the first Supreme Court justice to make a mistake nor will she be the last, it happens,&#8221; cohost <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/he-was-sexually-harassing-himself-cnns-navarro-defends-toobin-offers-unique-take-on-him-masturbating-during-zoom-call/">Ana Navarro</a> added, noting that the number that had really stood out to her was one given by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. &#8220;He said there were 140,000 school age children at that time who have lost at least one parent to COVID, there are children who are in terrible conditions right now, going through grief because of what COVID has cost our children and the way to get to herd immunity is for all of us to get vaccinated.&#8221;
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Justice Sotomayor Missed The Mark On COVID-19 And Kids By Over 95,000 — ‘The View’ Hosts Blow It Off: ‘It Happens’

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PolitiFact slammed liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for claiming during oral arguments over the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on Friday that more than 100,000 children were in &#8220;serious condition&#8221; due to the coronavirus.
&#8220;We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators&#8221; due to coronavirus, Sotomayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-sotomayor-totally-botches-covid-19-facts-about-omicron-children-in-hospital-in-line-of-questioning">said</a>.
PolitiFact rated the statement as &#8220;False,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/07/sonia-sotomayor/fact-checking-sotomayor-kids-severe-covid-19/">writing</a> in-part:
<blockquote>While the number of coronavirus-positive pediatric hospitalizations has risen with the spread of the omicron variant, Sotomayor’s number was way off.
At the time she made this comment, federal data showed that fewer than 5,000 coronavirus-positive children were in the hospital. In fact, fewer than 83,000 children have been hospitalized for COVID-19 — cumulatively — since August 2020.
There are over 100,000 cases among children, but scientists say that few of those are severe.</blockquote>
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NEW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor said during oral arguments today that “we have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators” due to the coronavirus. That&#39;s False. <a href="https://t.co/9itoVd1s1L">https://t.co/9itoVd1s1L</a> <a href="https://t.co/zX8Nf6Bx8r">pic.twitter.com/zX8Nf6Bx8r</a>
&mdash; PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) <a href="https://twitter.com/PolitiFact/status/1479608835740508165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Omicron is as deadly as delta and causes as much serious disease in the unvaccinated as delta did,&#8221; Sotomayor also claimed. &#8220;The numbers—look at the hospitalization rates going up. We have more infected people today than we did a year ago in January. We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we&#8217;ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators.'&#8221;
On Wednesday, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/fauci-says-multiple-preliminary-studies-find-omicron-is-less-severe-than-delta.html">stated</a> that “multiple sources of now-preliminary data indicate a decrease severity with Omicron.”
The news comes as the U.S. has shattered global records this week for new daily coronavirus cases, despite Democrat President Joe Biden’s pledge to “shut down the virus.”
“No, I don’t think COVID is here to stay, but having COVID in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay,” Biden <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/588748-biden-says-he-doesnt-think-covid-is-here-to-stay">said</a>. “COVID as we’re dealing with it now is not here to stay, the normal doesn’t have to be. We have so many more tools we developed and we continue to develop that can contain COVID and other strains of COVID.”
Biden’s comments about how he thinks coronavirus is not “here to stay” and that his administration can develop strategies to “contain” it do appear to challenge the advice that Biden was given by six experts this week.
Six former advisers who counseled him during the presidential transition <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/06/world/omicron-covid-vaccine-tests">wrote</a> this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association that it was time for Biden to change strategies to something geared toward living with the virus.
The CDC <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210121045133/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days">reported</a> that on January 20, 2021, at 1:16 p.m., there were 400,306 deaths recorded in the U.S. from the coronavirus. Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/biden-constitutional-noon-sworn-in/">officially</a> became president of the United States at noon on that day.
Since then, the number of people who have died from coronavirus under Biden’s watch is now well over 429,000, according to <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days">recent</a> figures.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/high-school-teacher-charged-after-putting-child-in-trunk-of-car-over-fear-they-had-coronavirus-report">High School Teacher Charged After Putting Child In Trunk Of Car Over Fear They Had Coronavirus: Report</a>
This report has been updated to include additional information.

PolitiFact Slams Liberal Justice Sotomayor For Claiming 100K Kids In ‘Serious Condition’ With COVID

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During Friday&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-oral-arguments-begin-in-the-daily-wires-challenge-against-bidens-vaccine-mandate">oral arguments</a> on the constitutional validity of President Joe Biden&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, enforced through the federal government&#8217;s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor probed what the difference between a &#8220;human spewing a bloodborne virus&#8221; versus a &#8220;machine spewing sparks,&#8221; is in actuality. Her question alluded to the fact that OSHA has the authority to enforce rules and regulations for workplace safety violations such as electrical and fire hazards. The line of questioning was widely mocked via Twitter for what seems to be a misunderstanding of the science behind COVID-19 and as well as basic human ethics.
As CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-covid-vaccine-mandates-supreme-court-01-07-22/index.html">reported</a>, Sotomayor needled Scott Keller, who is representing the National Federation of Independent Business in the case, on several items:
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She noted that some states are banning private employers from implementing their own vaccine or mask mandates and said that “Congress has decided to give OSHA the power to regulate workplace safety.”
Why shouldn’t the federal government have a national rule to protect workers, Sotomayor asked.
Later in her questioning, Keller tried to distinguish the vaccine-or-mask rules from OSHA’s ability to regulate that workplaces require masks when machinery is emitting dangerous sparks.”
“Why is a human being not like a machine if it’s spewing bloodborne viruses” when it comes to OSHA’s authority, Sotomayor pushed back.
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In response, several Twitter users observed the key difference is that machines are inanimate objects while a human being is a living person with free will.
&#8220;Sotomayor sees us as machines with no freedom,&#8221; conservative radio host Stacy Washington tweeted. Explains a lot as she’s a command and control leftist.
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Sotomayor sees us as machines with no freedom. Explains a lot as she’s a command and control leftist. <a href="https://t.co/R16bQJq5dq">https://t.co/R16bQJq5dq</a>
&mdash; Stacy Washington (@StacyOnTheRight) <a href="https://twitter.com/StacyOnTheRight/status/1479481981188591616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is what an Ivy League education gets you,&#8221; the populist organization The Bull Moose Project responded. &#8220;We’ll pass on the transhumanist horrors, thanks.&#8221;
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This is what an Ivy League education gets you. 
We’ll pass on the transhumanist horrors, thanks. <a href="https://t.co/MZpYepT08l">https://t.co/MZpYepT08l</a>
&mdash; The Bull Moose Project 🇺🇸 (@BullMooseProj) <a href="https://twitter.com/BullMooseProj/status/1479484222305935363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Radiologist and public health policy expert Pradheep Shanker sarcastically tweeted, &#8220;Sotomayor logic: &#8220;Why is a woman gestating babies not like a machine spewing sparks?&#8221;
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Sotomayor logic: &quot;Why is a woman gestating babies not like a machine spewing sparks?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wEIC4o5hFH">https://t.co/wEIC4o5hFH</a>
&mdash; Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) <a href="https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1479479710585442312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is the justice put on the court for her &#8217;empathy,&#8217; [if I recall correctly],&#8221; the Washington Examiner&#8217;s Seth Mandel noted.
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This is the justice put on the court for her &#39;empathy,&#39; iirc. <a href="https://t.co/FAgKFqMnv2">https://t.co/FAgKFqMnv2</a>
&mdash; Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1479478902888226816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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National Review&#8217;s Michael Dougherty stated, &#8220;I love the idea that an Executive branch agency meant to protect worker&#8217;s rights is now adopting the argument that workers should be regulated like toxic chemicals.&#8221;
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I love the idea that an Executive branch agency meant to protect worker&#39;s rights is now adopting the argument that workers should be regulated like toxic chemicals. <a href="https://t.co/9aSoQBMChW">https://t.co/9aSoQBMChW</a>
&mdash; Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1479477812562214922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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SCOTUS is currently hearing the case on an expedited schedule, limiting the argument time to one hour and choosing two representative petitioners to argue. The OSHA mandate is scheduled to go into effect on January 10 with enforcement beginning February 9. It is expected that a decision could come before Monday.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-sotomayor-totally-botches-covid-19-facts-about-omicron-children-in-hospital-in-line-of-questioning">Justice Sotomayor Totally Botches COVID-19 Facts About Omicron, Children In Hospital In Line Of Questioning</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-oral-arguments-begin-in-the-daily-wires-challenge-against-bidens-vaccine-mandate">Supreme Court Oral Arguments Begin In Challenge Against Biden’s Vaccine Mandate</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-scotus-agrees-to-hear-arguments-on-biden-vax-mandate">SCOTUS Agrees To Hear Arguments On Biden Vax Mandate</a>
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Justice Sotomayor Slammed For Comparing Humans ‘Spewing Bloodborne Viruses’ To Dangerous ‘Machines’

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On Friday, the United States Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-oral-arguments-begin-in-the-daily-wires-challenge-against-bidens-vaccine-mandate">heard oral arguments</a> in a case challenging the Biden administration’s federal COVID-19 vaccine or test mandate for employers with more than 100 employees. Unlike other court cases, this one heavily involves the science behind COVID-19 and an understanding of basic facts to determine whether or not COVID-19 truly poses a threat requiring Biden&#8217;s mandate. But, a line of questioning from Justice Sonia Sotomayor indicated that she may not understand the reality that COVID-19 and the Omicron variant currently presents to the nation.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/supreme-court-hears-oral-arguments-on-biden-vaccine-mandates-live-updates">reported</a> by Fox News, Sotomayor objected to several claims made by Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers, arguing on behalf of GOP-led states opposing mandate:
<blockquote>She objected to his claim that Omicron represented a new situation than Delta, given its lesser severity in many instances, as well as his claim that vaccines appeared to be less effective at stopping transmission.
Sotomayor pointed to increased hospitalizations and said that &#8220;those numbers show that omicron is just as deadly for the unvaccinated.&#8221;
&#8220;We have over 100,000 children, which we&#8217;ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators,&#8221; she said.</blockquote>
But, neither her claims regarding Omicron nor her claims about the number of children in the hospital because of COVID-19 were based on recent facts.
Numerous preliminary studies have indicated that Omicron, while more transmissible, is far less deadly than the Delta variant of COVID-19. Likewise, real-world data show that while the vaccine may reduce the severity of a COVID-19 case, it does not necessarily prevent transmission of the virus to other people.
On Wednesday, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/fauci-says-multiple-preliminary-studies-find-omicron-is-less-severe-than-delta.html">stated</a> that &#8220;multiple sources of now-preliminary data indicate a decrease severity with Omicron.&#8221;
&#8220;Fauci cited a study from Ontario, Canada, that found the risk of hospitalization or death was 65% lower among people infected with omicron compared with individuals who caught delta. The risk of admission to an intensive care unit or death from omicron was 83% lower, according to the study,&#8221; CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/fauci-says-multiple-preliminary-studies-find-omicron-is-less-severe-than-delta.html">reported.</a>
It should also be noted that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-now-says-hospitals-are-overcounting-covid-19-cases-in-children-because-they-automatically-get-tested-sound-familiar">Fauci had previously claimed</a> that hospitals and the government were likely not differentiating children who were hospitalized &#8220;because&#8221; of COVID-19 vs. children who were hospitalized &#8220;with&#8221; COVID-19, but were primarily there for another reason — for example, a broken leg or arm.
While hospitalizations amongst children with COVID-19 have increased in recent weeks, nothing suggests that more than 100,000 children are currently in the hospital due to COVID-19.
&#8220;As of Tuesday, the average number of children and teens admitted to the hospital per day with COVID-19 was 766,&#8221; The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-pandemics-rochelle-walensky-0f9d46ab55b0f2f6951ffddd6ca8a511">reported </a>on Friday. The AP also added that Fauci noted &#8220;many children hospitalized with COVID-19 have other health conditions that make them more susceptible to complications from the virus. That includes obesity, diabetes and lung disease.&#8221;
Likewise, between <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7036e2.htm">March 1, 2020–June 19, 2021</a>, there were roughly 3,116 hospitalized children and adolescents with COVID-19, which again does not necessarily mean they were there &#8220;because&#8221; of COVID-19, per Fauci&#8217;s comments.
Sotomayor&#8217;s comments were <a href="https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1479481815811465225?s=20">ridiculed</a> as &#8220;shockingly dumb&#8221; via Twitter.
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Justice Sotomayor Totally Botches COVID-19 Facts About Omicron, Children In Hospital In Line Of Questioning

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor compared unborn babies to braindead people during Wednesday&#8217;s oral arguments in the landmark abortion case currently before the court.
In an effort to address the question of <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-study-shows-incredible-nerve-development-first-frank-camp/">fetal pain</a> — whether the ability to feel and respond to pain is proof that the fetus is alive and at what point an unborn child in the womb is capable of feeling and responding to pain — <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sotomayor-to-law-students-i-cant-change-texas-abortion-ban-but-you-can/">Sotomayor</a> argued that a physical reaction to certain stimuli is also common in patients who have been declared braindead.
&#8220;Justice Sotomayor acting the role of Philosopher-King over the sensation of fetal pain is moral avoidance. The question is not, ultimately, over pain, but whether the Constitution grants the right to terminate innocent life. The answer is, of course, no,&#8221; ethics and theology professor <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewtwalk/status/1466065695993524230">Andrew T. Walker</a> responded.
Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1466088575766867975">Lindsey Graham</a> also offered his objection, <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1466088676757225472">tweeting</a>, &#8220;With all due respect to Justice Sotomayor, it is not a minority of doctors who believe an unborn child can feel pain before 24 weeks. It is well-established medical practice to provide anesthesia to the unborn child regarding medical procedures performed before 24 weeks because the nerve endings, which generate pain, are well-developed.&#8221;
&#8220;Why administer anesthesia to unborn children before 24 weeks if pain is not involved? I have asked medical professionals: &#8216;Would you perform medical procedures to save or improve the life of an unborn child in the 20 week period without administering anesthesia?'&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1466088964062859270">Graham</a> continued, <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1466090802807984136">adding</a>, &#8220;It is virtually unanimous that anesthesia is appropriate. Justice Sotomayor is misinformed (and that is dangerous) about how medical procedures are performed on unborn children.&#8221;
Sotomayor also addressed the major concern of many on the left — whether or not the court might move to overturn either or both of the two previous landmark abortion cases: Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
&#8220;Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?&#8221; she asked.
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Sotomayor says the sponsors of Mississippi&#8217;s 15-week abortion ban said &#8220;we&#8217;re doing it because we have new justices.&#8221;
She asks: &#8220;Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/T2MmA56ddf">pic.twitter.com/T2MmA56ddf</a>
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) <a href="https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1466065268422197254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-kavanaugh-at-abortion-case-arguments-why-should-this-court-be-the-arbiter-rather-than-congress-states-the-people">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The Supreme Court has been hearing arguments that could dramatically change the landscape of abortion in the country. 
The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, concerns a 2018 law in Mississippi that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. As the law stands now, Roe v. Wade and the decisions that came after it hold that states have to allow a woman to be able to get an abortion up to the point of viability, or when the baby can survive on its own outside the womb. Most states hold this mark at around 20 to 24 weeks, so the Mississippi law is a direct violation. 
Mississippi said in its original petition that the questions presented to the Court do not require them to overturn Roe or Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In its brief in July, however, the state <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1392/184703/20210722161332385_19-1392BriefForPetitioners.pdf">wrote</a>, “Roe and Casey are egregiously wrong” and said the court should overrule those decisions.
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The court is expected to issue a ruling on the case next summer.

Justice Sotomayor Compares Unborn Babies To Braindead People Reacting To Stimuli

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a group of law students on Wednesday that while she might not be able to change Texas&#8217;s strict new abortion law, they could do something about it.
&#8220;You know, I can&#8217;t change Texas&#8217;s law,&#8221; Sotomayor <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/politics/sonia-sotomayor/index.html">said</a> at an event hosted by the American Bar Association. &#8220;But you can, and everyone else who may or may not like it can go out there and be lobbying forces in changing laws that you don&#8217;t like.&#8221;
&#8220;There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Look at me, look at my dissents.&#8221;
She then caught herself, acknowledging that she was not supposed to be discussing a case currently before the court.
&#8220;But my point is that there are going to be a lot of things you don&#8217;t like,&#8221; and can change, she added.
Sotomayor penned a vehement dissent when the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 to allow the Texas law to go into effect on September 1.
The law bans almost all abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at around six weeks of pregnancy. The law does not make exceptions for abortions in cases of rape and incest. The only time the law permits abortions is when the life of the mother is at stake or the pregnancy could cause “substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.”
In addition, the Texas law allows private citizens to launch civil lawsuits against anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. At least one such lawsuit has already been <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/09/30/meet-the-first-man-to-file-a-lawsuit-under-texas--near-total-abortion-ban">filed</a>.
&#8220;The Court&#8217;s order is stunning,&#8221; Sotomayor wrote in her dissent.
&#8220;Presented with an application to join a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of the Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand,&#8221; the justice wrote.
She concluded, &#8220;The Court should not be so content to ignore its constitutional obligations to protect not only the rights of women, but also the sanctity of its precedents and of the rule of law.&#8221;
Sotomayor joined the court&#8217;s two other liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts in the minority. The court&#8217;s five conservative justices, including the three appointed by former President Donald Trump, comprised the majority in the Texas case.
The Supreme Court begins a new term next week on Monday and will hear its first in-person oral arguments since the court began hearing cases virtually when the COVID-19 pandemic began. The court is set to hear several cases on controversial issues, including a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. In that case, Mississippi is arguing against Roe vs. Wade’s ban on states outlawing abortion before the fetus is viable outside the womb, usually considered around 22 weeks of pregnancy.

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