I haven't been following this "controversy", but good for Gorsuch

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Apparently, Sotomayor has been boycotting Supreme Court sessions because her colleague Neil Gorsuch refuses to play along with her bit of theater and mask up. In a shocking development, some are accusing her of hypocrisy.

[L]et’s note that every single justice on the Supreme Court is not only doubled vaccinated but they have all had boosters as well. That leaves the obvious question for Sotomayor: Does she not believe that the vaccines work? Do they protect against serious illness and death or not?

Think about the inaneness of her position. Sotomayor spewed mountains of disinformation during oral arguments in an attempt to federally mandate vaccines for 100 million private employees. Yet, she clearly doesn’t trust the vaccines enough to sit 30 feet away from someone not wearing a mask — who is also fully vaxxed and boosted. If she were trying to undermine her case, what would she be doing differently?

But for Sotomayor, this is really about power. She tried to create controversy by forcing Gorsuch to wear a mask in a clear attempt to bolster her argument that the pandemic is so serious that the Constitution no longer applies. “See, this virus is so dangerous that even all the conservative justices are masked up” she would have no doubt loved to bleat.

To his credit, Gorsuch refused to play along and threw her demands back in her face. If she doesn’t want to trust the very vaccines she’s trying to mandate for the little people, then she can jump on Zoom and rant from her house. Gorsuch made the right move, and it’s one that needs to happen in a lot of different areas right now. For too long, those who want to stay perpetually masked up in between booster shots have demanded others bend to their will. In doing so, they perpetually ignore the facts and data that show masks are largely ineffective anyway.