It wasn’t up to him at that time unfortunately. It was fueled by a compliant populace, power hungry politicians, and incompetent leaders afraid to topple the apple cart. Remember, early on all the Covid theater was accepted and wanted by a large majority of the public. 99% of businesses didn’t fight the shutdowns, they just locked there doors.
Love it. The problem is, those of us who tried to do that had our views mercilessly repressed by Facebook and Twitter.
That crowd never even saw me. Or you, or any of the folks now venting on Substack. We were there, and there were more of us than that cartoon represents, but to the misinformed masses, there were pretty much NO dissenting voices.
As the guy who writes "screaming into the void," I am certain that you know where I'm coming from.
And now they're doing the same exact thing to people who don't agree we should be throwing money hand-over-fist into Ukraine, or the people who think maybe 1/6 happened a little differently than they tell us, or basically any other issue where people dissent.
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“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
Love the quote. My only quibble is you forgot bureaucrats.
"Bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense
Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity."
And it's the same throughout every policy this bastards push. Does anyone really believe we can change the climate? CO2 is plant food, we have a symbiotic relationship with plant life. Look at the border and 87,000 new IRS agents. Look at our election system and health system. Everything they touch turns to shit. But the Wuhan Flu was perpetrated by fear, the controling factor that tyrants have used since the begining of civilization. We can criticize the courts, local and state officals but when it comes down to it it's people like Fauci, Biden, Cuomo, and all the damnable media who promoted this to gain power and fraudulently steal an election to gain and maintain their power.
I wonder if the Supreme Court justices will read this document .... One of the most impressive Covid documents I’ve read to date got me to thinking about the tsunami of unexposed Covid scandals. By my count, there are at least 10 … and they are all massive.
I have never understood why people would attack someone for adopting their beliefs or joining their cause instead of welcoming them. Is it a cry for attention? Or a personal beef with that individual at the expense of the cause?
If SCOTUS has made a statement or if even one justice made a statement they would not have gone along with this. Their compliance was reflective of the silence from the judiciary, which gave the illusion to many that this was all A OK.
Who knows what pressure was placed on the SC justices? Remember how Schumer threatened them with the “whirlwind” and Trump with the intel community. And how Biden and his stooge Garland refused to enforce federal law in regards to intimidation of the judiciary. Perhaps if Chief Justice Roberts had a bigger pair things would have been much different.
Fear of the unknown was ubiquitous and crippling (embarrased to admit but glad I overcame it 'On time' to avoid further damage). Lesson learned, NEVER AGAIN!
Oh man, when I saw the title of the email from the Stack I raced here to say exactly that!! If the left is furious with Gorsuch that's how I have felt since these damn so-called emergency dictates were issued. To quote John McClane, welcome to the party pal.
I don’t disagree with you. But conservative justices are rule-followers and they aren’t likely to break new ground unless pushed. It would have been nice if there had been some judicial activism in the fast few years, though.
It's not even "judicial activism" we need…simply what they've been appointed & confirmed to do: make interpretations based on the CONSTITUTION, without the influence of political hackery or Epstein/Deep State blackmail. And let's not forget, the rabid left urged retaliation in the leak of the upcoming reversal of Roe—and DS did absolutely nothing to protect them. Nothing.
What they "tend" to do is irrelevant. It is what they did en masse and everywhere. This was not something that was usual. It was a mass violation of our human rights and mass physical assault by the compliant civilian population on those of us who did not wish to go along with all this nonsense. People were physically assaulted in grocery stores, etc. for not wearing a stupid little piece of paper called a mask! People, such as myself, were denied medical care and surgery! People, such as myself, were not allowed to visit hospitalized relatives. People, such as myself, were forced to let other relatives die alone. People, such as myself, were forced to wear masks that that afe harmful to my health. And on and on and on.
This is a shot over the bow someone better wake up and start charging these people for crimes against humanity. Starting with Fauci Slavitt Broula Gottlieb legacy media who took and continues to take Taxpayers dollars to flat out lie to American citizens daily like no harms or continued harms into future generations to come.
When it’s politically convenient for covid to be over, the ‘leaders’ declare it’s over. When it’s politically convenient for covid to still be an emergency, it’s still an emergency. And while the legislature in Washington — and in Washington DC — is finally starting to demand a say in governing, this comes far too late for my liking.
We have checks and balances for a reason. The founders understood that unchecked power in the hands of one person was a recipe for disaster, and the last couple years have shown us why. Jay Inslee is not the ruler of Washington, able to close businesses and impose gathering rules at his whim (although always hiding behind his corrupt lackeys in the health department).
If they must exist at all, emergency powers should ONLY last until the legislature tasked with creating laws can convene. These days, our officials should be able to meet online within HOURS to actually vote and legally pass laws pertaining to the emergency. This “the governor decides based on a health official he employs” isn’t the way America was designed. The founders created a system in which it was SUPPOSED to be difficult to get stuff done — that way only the most important stuff would have enough support to become law.
And make no mistake, all too often our representatives are happy to pass the buck up the chain and keep their stance out of the public eye. But having your votes in the public eye is the point! You’re forced to defend your vote to your constituents, who can then throw you out of office because of it! This is one of the checks of the system!
Just like when the CDC revised its covid risk formula right before Biden's 2022 State of the Union address. Whereas before, 90% of the country was considered “high risk,” that fell to less than 30%. But the CDC's numbers (cases, hospital admissions, new deaths) hadn't improved, they'd actually gotten worse.
The truth was that the Democrats were getting slaughtered in the polls; they'd just lost the most support in one year in Gallup history. The only thing that changed was the politics of the pandemic. It became politically convenient to rein in some of the covid authoritarianism.
Gorsuch, Thomas and Alioto voted to limit the vax in both cases that went to the court. Roberts and Kavanaugh split requiring Vax for all hospital workers but not all workplaces with over 100 employees. Justices can but normally don't opine on matters that may come before the court.
I think/hope there should have been more civil disobedience. I went to the beach the day dictator Newsome shut them down. So did many other and police just watched. But hard to continue to go restaurants or for a haircut when they are all closed because govt will pull your license if you are open.
Exactly what I thought. The opportunity to intercede existed by examining the obvious election deficiencies (to avoid saying “theft”. I think any reasonable, unbiased person can agree there were deficiencies and irregularities all over the battleground map). I believe creating chaos during the election was a big motive for the whole response and, once done, to steer the ship to where they want it to be for future actions). Popping the election related “emergency” powers would have been within SCOTUS purview. But we got “lack of standing” instead. Pardon me while I yawn at Gorsuch’ sudden interest
GORSUCH along with Thomas and Alioto voted to limit the vaccine mandate in both the OSHA and for Medicare cases leaving this decision to the states as opposed to the federal government. Unfortunately, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh wanted to split the baby and decided OSHA to limit vax for workers generally but also said Medicare could impose the vax on all hospital workers. The more liberal justices would have required the VAX for everyone. It was clear during oral arguments that Sotomayor was a big CNN watcher as she believed Covid-19 killed everyone.
“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,” Sotomayor claimed.
The current number of confirmed pediatric hospitalizations with Covid in the U.S. is 3,342, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services released on Friday. The average number of children admitted to the hospital per day with Covid was 776 as of Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
She wasn't lying. That is what she believed was true much like every other CNN/MSNB watcher. In Sotomayor's defense, the cases went to the supreme court were not argued at lower courts where facts are generally determined by a jury. These cases (OSHA and Medicare) were emergency injunctions so there was not any fact finding.
She was 100% lying. There was never any data -- repeated on CNN or MSNBC or anywhere else -- showing that there were 100,000 children in hospitals.
But the overarching point is that if Sotomayor had the chance to "spread falsehoods" about covid, then Gorsuch had the chance to rail against lockdowns and government overreach during covid.
“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,” Sotomayor claimed.
The current number of confirmed pediatric hospitalizations with Covid in the U.S. is 3,342, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services released on Friday. The average number of children admitted to the hospital per day with Covid was 776 as of Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Two cases when up to the supreme court, both went up on when folks tried to stop OSHA and Medicare from requiring Vax on all workers (OSHA) and for all Medicare workers. Both decided 1-13-2022 with Medicare allowed to require vax but OSHA was not allowed to impose requirement on all workplaces with 100 or more employees. Gorsuch, Thomas and Alioto would not have allowed in both cases and would have pushed both to the states.
The only good thing that came out of this whole COVID mess, is that all these "liberals" fully outted themselves as the good little Communists I always knew they were. (And finally, some of us are starting to fight back.)
Times of crisis is when it is most important to stand up and defend freedoms. To bad this weak ass populace happily locked themselves up, some for years.
I think some learned something. More are waking up to the scam everyday. Honestly I don’t remember anything making it to the Supreme Court regarding lockdowns and the like, but I could be misinformed.
What astounds me to this day are the Covidians dogged desire to cling to measures Gorsich alluded to as though they actually worked and that they did not go far enough. Stupid is, what stupid says...
They even funded studies to "prove" that these measures (especially vaccines) saved millions of lives. . . .
In other news, I am finding it almost impossible to not openly mock people with masks on, especially the 'tards that wear them outside. God help me. . .
Yes, if you had asked any of these bossy Covidians before the pandemic, whether any of these crazy extreme measures could be undertaken in America, they would have laughed and called them plainly unconstitutional. But once given the Five Eyes cum Chinese/European bureaucratic playbook, they lost that insight overnight.
I know people who have spent most of their careers navigating US regulations whose faces went totally blank when I confronted them in 2020 about the contradiction between the outrages Gorsuch describes and the law as they knew it. “An emergency” they shrugged--even though the Supreme Court has for decades said that emergency exceptions to the administrative procedures act of 1946 must be very narrow and are “rarely countenanced.” I think Gorsuch is a hero for articulating these outrages in such an elegant, coherent and detailed way. It’s a shot across the bow for future purposes (and indeed a script for the chambers of the district and appellate courts).
Agreed. Expecting them to have any sense of introspection is folly. They created a religion and practiced it for three years. No way do they want to hear that their beliefs were wrong.
Drudge linked an article today about Covid deaths which still encouraged masking and vaccines. The Cincinnati Enquirer interviewed today an epidemiologist (yeah, I know, I would rather my children belong to Antifa than become epidemiologists) who was still pushing vaxxes and masks in "high risk" activities like travel and crowds.
No amount of data or facts will persuade these idiots to leave their religion.
When I was fired for refusing the jab, it took quite awhile for me to find representation to sue my former employer. Thank God I found a group to take my case on, but it wasn’t easy. As time has passed, its obvious now who’s on the right side of this.
It's been obvious the entire time. Government has no power to override the bodily autonomy of its citizens -- ESPECIALLY with an experimental "vaccine" that doesn't even stop you from getting the virus.
I agree, it was definitely weird. Made me think the legal profession was in like the media, government, pharma, big medicine, big tech. I kept thinking, “this isn’t legal, is it?” Thankfully I have 3 who agree it’s not.
The Plaintiffs' trial lawyers know which lawsuits are okay ... and which are not. They've got a good thing going ... if they don't go against the all-important "Current Thing." 99 percent play along. God bless the 1 percent who don't.
What I STILL can’t wrap my head around after all this time is why was it “safe” to shop and eat at Target and Walmart but not your local small businesses!
As a lifelong Democrat who knew about the dangers of all vaccines decades go, I was telling people from the get-go that you couldn’t pay me a $million to take the jab. Then all the people I thought I had pretty similar views with lined up like sheep! Geez! Needless to say, my views about many, many things have dramatically changed! Thank God for Substack, Brownstone Institute, Peak Prosperity, CHD, Brand, Dr. Mercola, and many more!:)
What I learned from this? Among other things, the NYT readership is a lock step echo chamber that has sacrificed its right to think to leftist ideology. And people actually think that what happened in Germany last century could never happen here, as long as they suspend our right of speech and other inconvenient rights to their “enlightened” rule.
Why the harsh focus on Gorsuch? There are 8 others and one being the Chief Justice. Now that one of the 9 is speaking out, you focus your ire on him and effectively give the other 8 a pass. How will that affect their behavior? Will it encourage them to be more or less vocal in the future? Less, is the logical answer.
Any attorney, judge, or legal scholar who wasn't horrified at the widespread and criminal insult to human rights and Constitutionally guaranteed individual freedoms that constituted the official response to the pandemic is either a fascist, a collaborator, or brain-dead.
Maybe the Supreme Court will revisit what the government is allowed to do in emergencies and in times of war. Historically, the court has allowed infringement of basic rights in these circumstances. In Korematsu the court allowed Japanese Americans to be placed concentration camps as we were at war. We are still apologizing for that horrible decision.
Gorsuch is incorrect that they "threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too." They weren't mere "threats." Maryland actually put a man in jail for over a year for having parties at his own home.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Wednesday that he is authorizing the city to shut off utility service to properties where large parties and gatherings are held, CBS Los Angeles reports. Garcetti said that, starting Friday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will cut off water and power service in "egregious" cases where unpermitted large parties and gatherings take place.
Unpermitted. That’s the word that stands out for me. Unpermitted by our civil servants who work for the people....oh wait I might have that backwards. Civilians who work for the government types. Yeah, that’s it.
It’s just unbelievable that people are so foolish. The WalzHole and his cronies have destroyed what was once a great place to live if you don’t mind cold, snowy winters.
Gorsuch was not incorrect. Simply because he may not have touched on the follow through on the threats doesn’t make him incorrect. Incomplete maybe, but his statement was 100% correct.
I live in NY. Two weeks before that dumb fuck Cuomo initiated the lockdown, hospitalizations from COVID dropped dramatically. Two weeks after the lockdown, hospitalizations rose dramatically. This actually surprised him, didn't see it coming. See, that's what happens when you force people to stay in the same house together for extended periods of time, it spreads faster! Instead of admitting he fucked up, like most blue state governors wouldn't, he blamed the people in his state. Word of advice to people, STOP ELECTING DEMOCRATS!! INTELLIGENCE IS NOT THEIR STRONGEST CHARACTER TRAIT!!
But.....Trump! He was being hammered from all directions and subjected to a slow rolling coup d’etat from the intel community and the FBI. The vast majority of the news media as well. Had he fired Pfauci or Birks there would have been 3 impeachments.
The sadness about the whole affair is that the actual denial of "Constitutional Rights" is really lost on the majority, not only the LEFT, nut so many of the middle and Right. Fear made cowards of them all. The politics involved was allowed to hide behind "The Greater Good" while secretly gloating over the childish mantra, Ha, Ha, I made you do it while trying to garner more power. The next time we may have a "King" for life if we allow a next time. "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. “ (Edmound Burke)
I mean....it was nice to see and everything, but where the fuck was he when the shit was actually happening?
Yes, and the same can be said for the 2020 election.
It wasn’t up to him at that time unfortunately. It was fueled by a compliant populace, power hungry politicians, and incompetent leaders afraid to topple the apple cart. Remember, early on all the Covid theater was accepted and wanted by a large majority of the public. 99% of businesses didn’t fight the shutdowns, they just locked there doors.
If I could stand up and Scream, so could he.
Yet he didn't.
Leadership sometimes looks like this:
https://imgur.com/a/C8aiYgO
Love it. The problem is, those of us who tried to do that had our views mercilessly repressed by Facebook and Twitter.
That crowd never even saw me. Or you, or any of the folks now venting on Substack. We were there, and there were more of us than that cartoon represents, but to the misinformed masses, there were pretty much NO dissenting voices.
As the guy who writes "screaming into the void," I am certain that you know where I'm coming from.
And now they're doing the same exact thing to people who don't agree we should be throwing money hand-over-fist into Ukraine, or the people who think maybe 1/6 happened a little differently than they tell us, or basically any other issue where people dissent.
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“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
― George Orwell (Sexy MF)
Love the quote. My only quibble is you forgot bureaucrats.
"Bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense
Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity."
Theodore Dalrymple
"What good fortune for those in power that people do not think."
Adolf Hitler
In other words, Tyranny.
And it's the same throughout every policy this bastards push. Does anyone really believe we can change the climate? CO2 is plant food, we have a symbiotic relationship with plant life. Look at the border and 87,000 new IRS agents. Look at our election system and health system. Everything they touch turns to shit. But the Wuhan Flu was perpetrated by fear, the controling factor that tyrants have used since the begining of civilization. We can criticize the courts, local and state officals but when it comes down to it it's people like Fauci, Biden, Cuomo, and all the damnable media who promoted this to gain power and fraudulently steal an election to gain and maintain their power.
And sometimes you need FAST leadership - leadership that acts before all these preposterous "narratives" are set in stone as infallible.
I wonder if the Supreme Court justices will read this document .... One of the most impressive Covid documents I’ve read to date got me to thinking about the tsunami of unexposed Covid scandals. By my count, there are at least 10 … and they are all massive.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/cataloging-a-tsunami-of-covid-scandals
I have never understood why people would attack someone for adopting their beliefs or joining their cause instead of welcoming them. Is it a cry for attention? Or a personal beef with that individual at the expense of the cause?
He's more than welcome to prove he's actually on our side. Other than a sternly worded letter, what exactly has he done?
If SCOTUS has made a statement or if even one justice made a statement they would not have gone along with this. Their compliance was reflective of the silence from the judiciary, which gave the illusion to many that this was all A OK.
Who knows what pressure was placed on the SC justices? Remember how Schumer threatened them with the “whirlwind” and Trump with the intel community. And how Biden and his stooge Garland refused to enforce federal law in regards to intimidation of the judiciary. Perhaps if Chief Justice Roberts had a bigger pair things would have been much different.
Fear of the unknown was ubiquitous and crippling (embarrased to admit but glad I overcame it 'On time' to avoid further damage). Lesson learned, NEVER AGAIN!
Emphasis on compliant populace...unfortunately. I still find it shocking.
"Where the fuck was he?"
Oh man, when I saw the title of the email from the Stack I raced here to say exactly that!! If the left is furious with Gorsuch that's how I have felt since these damn so-called emergency dictates were issued. To quote John McClane, welcome to the party pal.
Ditto.
They have to have cases brought to them. They don’t tend to publicly comment on issues just because they have an opinion as far as I know.
Maybe it's just me, but the systematic violation of nearly all our Constitutional rights is a little bit more than "an issue."
If you're not going to stand up and speak when it's happening, you're no better than the late-arriving patriot that Twain abhorred.
I don’t disagree with you. But conservative justices are rule-followers and they aren’t likely to break new ground unless pushed. It would have been nice if there had been some judicial activism in the fast few years, though.
It's not even "judicial activism" we need…simply what they've been appointed & confirmed to do: make interpretations based on the CONSTITUTION, without the influence of political hackery or Epstein/Deep State blackmail. And let's not forget, the rabid left urged retaliation in the leak of the upcoming reversal of Roe—and DS did absolutely nothing to protect them. Nothing.
Yes SC.
What they "tend" to do is irrelevant. It is what they did en masse and everywhere. This was not something that was usual. It was a mass violation of our human rights and mass physical assault by the compliant civilian population on those of us who did not wish to go along with all this nonsense. People were physically assaulted in grocery stores, etc. for not wearing a stupid little piece of paper called a mask! People, such as myself, were denied medical care and surgery! People, such as myself, were not allowed to visit hospitalized relatives. People, such as myself, were forced to let other relatives die alone. People, such as myself, were forced to wear masks that that afe harmful to my health. And on and on and on.
Happy to see that the expressive word "Fuck" is not banned and allowed to add weight and color to the argument.
This is a shot over the bow someone better wake up and start charging these people for crimes against humanity. Starting with Fauci Slavitt Broula Gottlieb legacy media who took and continues to take Taxpayers dollars to flat out lie to American citizens daily like no harms or continued harms into future generations to come.
I wonder how long it will take for all these local and State "emergency measures" to be repealed?
The answer is never for many.
I wonder if he's given any thought to that?
This man deserves to be ridiculed.
If only somebody had been screaming about this for over a year!
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/politicians-covid-is-over-but-the
When it’s politically convenient for covid to be over, the ‘leaders’ declare it’s over. When it’s politically convenient for covid to still be an emergency, it’s still an emergency. And while the legislature in Washington — and in Washington DC — is finally starting to demand a say in governing, this comes far too late for my liking.
We have checks and balances for a reason. The founders understood that unchecked power in the hands of one person was a recipe for disaster, and the last couple years have shown us why. Jay Inslee is not the ruler of Washington, able to close businesses and impose gathering rules at his whim (although always hiding behind his corrupt lackeys in the health department).
If they must exist at all, emergency powers should ONLY last until the legislature tasked with creating laws can convene. These days, our officials should be able to meet online within HOURS to actually vote and legally pass laws pertaining to the emergency. This “the governor decides based on a health official he employs” isn’t the way America was designed. The founders created a system in which it was SUPPOSED to be difficult to get stuff done — that way only the most important stuff would have enough support to become law.
And make no mistake, all too often our representatives are happy to pass the buck up the chain and keep their stance out of the public eye. But having your votes in the public eye is the point! You’re forced to defend your vote to your constituents, who can then throw you out of office because of it! This is one of the checks of the system!
Just like when the CDC revised its covid risk formula right before Biden's 2022 State of the Union address. Whereas before, 90% of the country was considered “high risk,” that fell to less than 30%. But the CDC's numbers (cases, hospital admissions, new deaths) hadn't improved, they'd actually gotten worse.
The truth was that the Democrats were getting slaughtered in the polls; they'd just lost the most support in one year in Gallup history. The only thing that changed was the politics of the pandemic. It became politically convenient to rein in some of the covid authoritarianism.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/often-wrong-never-in-doubt
YES! I loved how the "new rules" were county-by-county, as if county borders stop covid.......
Would that not require our own government's chemtrails to respect county borders? Hmmm…
Boom. And the knuckle head Republicans did nothing to capitalize with this in 22'.
Look at all the "likes" for comments justifying Gorsuch's behavior during covid.
It's astonishing.
This is EXACTLY why the tyranny during c19 could very well happen again.
Seriously wtf?!
Exactly RG
Gorsuch, Thomas and Alioto voted to limit the vax in both cases that went to the court. Roberts and Kavanaugh split requiring Vax for all hospital workers but not all workplaces with over 100 employees. Justices can but normally don't opine on matters that may come before the court.
Is allowing the constitution to be disregarded normal?
Our founders would slap the shit out of us for this nonsense.
I'm not trying to be a jerk...but you don't give a pass to any of them for "limiting" the constitution or our rights.
Well David would you have?
Would you prefer 2 or 5 years or perhaps 10 years of tyranny?
Or maybe just skip right to manacles?
I think/hope there should have been more civil disobedience. I went to the beach the day dictator Newsome shut them down. So did many other and police just watched. But hard to continue to go restaurants or for a haircut when they are all closed because govt will pull your license if you are open.
SCOTUS just sat and watched
Exactly what I thought. The opportunity to intercede existed by examining the obvious election deficiencies (to avoid saying “theft”. I think any reasonable, unbiased person can agree there were deficiencies and irregularities all over the battleground map). I believe creating chaos during the election was a big motive for the whole response and, once done, to steer the ship to where they want it to be for future actions). Popping the election related “emergency” powers would have been within SCOTUS purview. But we got “lack of standing” instead. Pardon me while I yawn at Gorsuch’ sudden interest
That's what I want to know? Where was everyone?
GORSUCH along with Thomas and Alioto voted to limit the vaccine mandate in both the OSHA and for Medicare cases leaving this decision to the states as opposed to the federal government. Unfortunately, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh wanted to split the baby and decided OSHA to limit vax for workers generally but also said Medicare could impose the vax on all hospital workers. The more liberal justices would have required the VAX for everyone. It was clear during oral arguments that Sotomayor was a big CNN watcher as she believed Covid-19 killed everyone.
Supreme Court Justices rule on cases that come to them and most rulings are quite focused, as was the Dobbs case no matter what the Left says.
Sotomayor had the chance to lie to the country and say that 100,000 American children were in the hospital with covid.........
https://news.yahoo.com/sotomayor-falsely-claims-100-000-185529971.html
“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,” Sotomayor claimed.
The current number of confirmed pediatric hospitalizations with Covid in the U.S. is 3,342, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services released on Friday. The average number of children admitted to the hospital per day with Covid was 776 as of Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
She wasn't lying. That is what she believed was true much like every other CNN/MSNB watcher. In Sotomayor's defense, the cases went to the supreme court were not argued at lower courts where facts are generally determined by a jury. These cases (OSHA and Medicare) were emergency injunctions so there was not any fact finding.
She was 100% lying. There was never any data -- repeated on CNN or MSNBC or anywhere else -- showing that there were 100,000 children in hospitals.
But the overarching point is that if Sotomayor had the chance to "spread falsehoods" about covid, then Gorsuch had the chance to rail against lockdowns and government overreach during covid.
Had he done that, he would have had to recluse himself from any future considerations related to the actions from the Covid mania.
Sotomayor had the chance to lie to the country and say that 100,000 American children were in the hospital with covid.........
https://news.yahoo.com/sotomayor-falsely-claims-100-000-185529971.html
“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,” Sotomayor claimed.
The current number of confirmed pediatric hospitalizations with Covid in the U.S. is 3,342, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services released on Friday. The average number of children admitted to the hospital per day with Covid was 776 as of Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
She sets the worst example of judicial behavior & she’s a political hack
You could find an excuse to take an expedited case and make a statement ... if you thought it was important to do so.
Exactly
Is there a law that prevents him?
No. It is his duty to uphold the constitution.
It was under assault.
Do you think he didn't speak out because it would be bad form as you intimate?
No. He is a wussy.
I would have to think twice before saving his ass from the gulags.
No excuses.
Well stated Ryan.
What happened over the past 3 years was not a single event. It was a series of events that went on and on and on.
Two cases when up to the supreme court, both went up on when folks tried to stop OSHA and Medicare from requiring Vax on all workers (OSHA) and for all Medicare workers. Both decided 1-13-2022 with Medicare allowed to require vax but OSHA was not allowed to impose requirement on all workplaces with 100 or more employees. Gorsuch, Thomas and Alioto would not have allowed in both cases and would have pushed both to the states.
We should preserve our laws and our freedom in times of crisis. The fact that the Left disagrees tells you everything you need to know.
Allow government to break the law in an emergency and there will always be an emergency.
The only good thing that came out of this whole COVID mess, is that all these "liberals" fully outted themselves as the good little Communists I always knew they were. (And finally, some of us are starting to fight back.)
Times of crisis is when it is most important to stand up and defend freedoms. To bad this weak ass populace happily locked themselves up, some for years.
Well Jim. I read all your comments and generally like all of them.
But you did make an excuse for Gorsuch's unconstitutional behavior during c19.
So did anyone learn anything?
Not being a troll. I think that's a legitimate question.
I think some learned something. More are waking up to the scam everyday. Honestly I don’t remember anything making it to the Supreme Court regarding lockdowns and the like, but I could be misinformed.
What astounds me to this day are the Covidians dogged desire to cling to measures Gorsich alluded to as though they actually worked and that they did not go far enough. Stupid is, what stupid says...
It's because they want climate lockdowns.
I don’t disagree. The COVID grift was a trial run for future governmental restrictions and suppression of constitutional rights.
They even funded studies to "prove" that these measures (especially vaccines) saved millions of lives. . . .
In other news, I am finding it almost impossible to not openly mock people with masks on, especially the 'tards that wear them outside. God help me. . .
They must be marginalized. It is for their own good. Especially young men.
Mask optional is not an option.
They fucking lost mask optional the minute they tried to force me to wear one.
Yes, if you had asked any of these bossy Covidians before the pandemic, whether any of these crazy extreme measures could be undertaken in America, they would have laughed and called them plainly unconstitutional. But once given the Five Eyes cum Chinese/European bureaucratic playbook, they lost that insight overnight.
I know people who have spent most of their careers navigating US regulations whose faces went totally blank when I confronted them in 2020 about the contradiction between the outrages Gorsuch describes and the law as they knew it. “An emergency” they shrugged--even though the Supreme Court has for decades said that emergency exceptions to the administrative procedures act of 1946 must be very narrow and are “rarely countenanced.” I think Gorsuch is a hero for articulating these outrages in such an elegant, coherent and detailed way. It’s a shot across the bow for future purposes (and indeed a script for the chambers of the district and appellate courts).
Agreed. Expecting them to have any sense of introspection is folly. They created a religion and practiced it for three years. No way do they want to hear that their beliefs were wrong.
Drudge linked an article today about Covid deaths which still encouraged masking and vaccines. The Cincinnati Enquirer interviewed today an epidemiologist (yeah, I know, I would rather my children belong to Antifa than become epidemiologists) who was still pushing vaxxes and masks in "high risk" activities like travel and crowds.
No amount of data or facts will persuade these idiots to leave their religion.
It could have been so much worse... Apparently these people really believe that.
Great piece, Alex! The NYT commentariat is all the evidence I need to confirm that my decision to flee the NYC Metro was a good one.
When I was fired for refusing the jab, it took quite awhile for me to find representation to sue my former employer. Thank God I found a group to take my case on, but it wasn’t easy. As time has passed, its obvious now who’s on the right side of this.
It's been obvious the entire time. Government has no power to override the bodily autonomy of its citizens -- ESPECIALLY with an experimental "vaccine" that doesn't even stop you from getting the virus.
It was obvious to me, but the legal profession wasn’t as willing as I was. It took some digging.
I agree, it was definitely weird. Made me think the legal profession was in like the media, government, pharma, big medicine, big tech. I kept thinking, “this isn’t legal, is it?” Thankfully I have 3 who agree it’s not.
The Plaintiffs' trial lawyers know which lawsuits are okay ... and which are not. They've got a good thing going ... if they don't go against the all-important "Current Thing." 99 percent play along. God bless the 1 percent who don't.
Which is super weird, because the official data has always contradicted the official narrative.
What I STILL can’t wrap my head around after all this time is why was it “safe” to shop and eat at Target and Walmart but not your local small businesses!
Or go to church or conservative political gatherings.
Oh God I love this comment
As a lifelong Democrat who knew about the dangers of all vaccines decades go, I was telling people from the get-go that you couldn’t pay me a $million to take the jab. Then all the people I thought I had pretty similar views with lined up like sheep! Geez! Needless to say, my views about many, many things have dramatically changed! Thank God for Substack, Brownstone Institute, Peak Prosperity, CHD, Brand, Dr. Mercola, and many more!:)
What I learned from this? Among other things, the NYT readership is a lock step echo chamber that has sacrificed its right to think to leftist ideology. And people actually think that what happened in Germany last century could never happen here, as long as they suspend our right of speech and other inconvenient rights to their “enlightened” rule.
Well. You want to know why that happened?
Look at all the people "liking" comments from others, here today, that are justifying Gorsuch's lack of balls during c19.
So you can count on it again.
It is VERY disappointing that like minded people here on the Stacks STILL don't get it.
Why the harsh focus on Gorsuch? There are 8 others and one being the Chief Justice. Now that one of the 9 is speaking out, you focus your ire on him and effectively give the other 8 a pass. How will that affect their behavior? Will it encourage them to be more or less vocal in the future? Less, is the logical answer.
PH - My ire is on all of them.
He's just the first coward to realize none of them want to own this. But I'll give him and Alito a D+ for freedom. The rest get F -.
They are like most powerful people:
They fear being wrong more than anything. And they are utterly terrified of being the last to know something socially.
Covid was an abomination. It's a crime against humanity.
Next time folks will be stripped naked and left with nothing but their masks.
It appears most people have not learned anything.
Any attorney, judge, or legal scholar who wasn't horrified at the widespread and criminal insult to human rights and Constitutionally guaranteed individual freedoms that constituted the official response to the pandemic is either a fascist, a collaborator, or brain-dead.
They believed it. All of it. The more formal education you had, the more likely you where to buy all the Covid bullshit.
Even if all of it was 100% true, the lockdowns, masks, and coerced vaccination program were still not justified.
Maybe the Supreme Court will revisit what the government is allowed to do in emergencies and in times of war. Historically, the court has allowed infringement of basic rights in these circumstances. In Korematsu the court allowed Japanese Americans to be placed concentration camps as we were at war. We are still apologizing for that horrible decision.
A decision which only affected a few people, but obviously had far-reaching implications.
Gorsuch is incorrect that they "threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too." They weren't mere "threats." Maryland actually put a man in jail for over a year for having parties at his own home.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-shut-off-water-power-houses-hosting-large-parties-gatherings/
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Wednesday that he is authorizing the city to shut off utility service to properties where large parties and gatherings are held, CBS Los Angeles reports. Garcetti said that, starting Friday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will cut off water and power service in "egregious" cases where unpermitted large parties and gatherings take place.
Unpermitted. That’s the word that stands out for me. Unpermitted by our civil servants who work for the people....oh wait I might have that backwards. Civilians who work for the government types. Yeah, that’s it.
Weird how Newsom's gatherings were never 'unpermitted' (or Obama's, for that matter).
Never ever forget this:
https://imgur.com/a/rLDXhsj
Minnesota is still going after people who kept their businesses open
And they still reelected Walz.
It’s just unbelievable that people are so foolish. The WalzHole and his cronies have destroyed what was once a great place to live if you don’t mind cold, snowy winters.
Yeah. So next time we need to tear down the walls and punk people wherever we can.
Especially men. Shit like; are you a man or a mouse?...or...how does it feel to be emasculated by the guy who got wedgies in high-school?
Gorsuch was not incorrect. Simply because he may not have touched on the follow through on the threats doesn’t make him incorrect. Incomplete maybe, but his statement was 100% correct.
"Courage is the first virtue because it makes all other virtues possible." -Aristotle
Good quote there, Mr. Aristotle!
New York Times readership is disabled, unfortunately. And they read to solely confirm their disability.
Again, this is why we should never, ever forget - or forgive - what they did. They show no remorse and would "reoffend" at the drop of a hat.
I live in NY. Two weeks before that dumb fuck Cuomo initiated the lockdown, hospitalizations from COVID dropped dramatically. Two weeks after the lockdown, hospitalizations rose dramatically. This actually surprised him, didn't see it coming. See, that's what happens when you force people to stay in the same house together for extended periods of time, it spreads faster! Instead of admitting he fucked up, like most blue state governors wouldn't, he blamed the people in his state. Word of advice to people, STOP ELECTING DEMOCRATS!! INTELLIGENCE IS NOT THEIR STRONGEST CHARACTER TRAIT!!
Meanwhile Trump just watched. And we still don't have an apology or acknowledgement of any errors.
But.....Trump! He was being hammered from all directions and subjected to a slow rolling coup d’etat from the intel community and the FBI. The vast majority of the news media as well. Had he fired Pfauci or Birks there would have been 3 impeachments.
Thank you Publius Thank You
Jesus, just Trump huh?
The sadness about the whole affair is that the actual denial of "Constitutional Rights" is really lost on the majority, not only the LEFT, nut so many of the middle and Right. Fear made cowards of them all. The politics involved was allowed to hide behind "The Greater Good" while secretly gloating over the childish mantra, Ha, Ha, I made you do it while trying to garner more power. The next time we may have a "King" for life if we allow a next time. "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. “ (Edmound Burke)
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