Toobin says Supreme Court retirement "imminent"

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Excited to learn more about this "Kantaji Brown Jackson"

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Maybe its Sotomayor.  She has become increasingly mentally unhinged thanks to Covid and now refuses to be in the same room as unmasked people, despite presumably being fully vaccinated.  Since she's too afraid to attend in person work-related meetings, seems possible she's going to retire soon realizing that Covid is never going away.

She literally has a chronic auto-immune disorder and at much higher risk for a serious covid infenction ffs

Gorsuch is literally putting her life in danger

He "literally" is not. Gorsuch (like every other justice) is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is currently asymptomatic. If Sotomayor is still worried about transmission, she always has the option of wearing an N95 mask — which, as we've discussed extensively over the last few weeks, protects the wearer even if other people are not wearing masks. The likelihood of transmission from a boosted, asymptomatic person to a boosted, N95-wearing person is basically nil. This is theater, nothing more.

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Gorsuch is literally putting her life in danger

He "literally" is not. Gorsuch (like every other justice) is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is currently asymptomatic. If Sotomayor is still worried about transmission, she always has the option of wearing an N95 mask — which, as we've discussed extensively over the last few weeks, protects the wearer even if other people are not wearing masks. The likelihood of transmission from a boosted, asymptomatic person to a boosted, N95-wearing person is basically nil. This is theater, nothing more.

If politely asking your coworkers to wear a mask while you’re all in a meeting together is “theater,” then what do you call being the one jerk in the office who refuses to wear one?

I understand that people should be accommodating of their coworkers, but at some point you have to draw a line. Gorsuch is not just fully vaccinated and boosted — he, like every other justice (and everyone else in the room), is also tested every morning before argument. It strikes me as more than a little unreasonable, even with a medical condition, to demand a triple-vaxxed person who tested negative an hour ago to still wear a mask.

At any rate, it seems more than a little odd to single out Gorsuch here — Thomas and Alito both removed their masks as soon as they were seated, and Kavanaugh, Roberts and Barrett (as well as the attorneys) removed their masks whenever they were speaking. (Which, for a disease spread mostly by the kind of droplets you expel when speaking, is...) Making a point about Gorsuch not wearing it when they're walking up to the bench, but not making the same point about the other justices removing their masks when they're actually seated together and asking questions during argument, is theater — it's wholly disconnected from the actual risks of spread.

Anyway, turns out this story is bs
https://twitter.com/adamliptak/status/1483840306474885131