The headline is a disappointing quote from a Justice Gorsuch comment to a case the Supreme Court remanded as moot.
Background: A certain former President and the Congress enacted a series of laws allowing the Federal Government to impose sanctions aimed at stopping the spread of the Covid-19 virus during the pandemic. Called Title 42, it gave the government broad powers to close borders and public places of gathering (but not tattoo parlors in Florida). A group of Republican (naturally) attorney generals sued under the theory that if they couldn't see the virus, there was no proof it was real and not a creation of Hillary Clinton at the direction of Mao Tse Tung and Venezuelan voting machine companies.
The current administration ended Title 42 last week, and the lawsuit, which had reached the Supreme Court via a fax sent to a yacht in the Greek Isles which just happened to have Justice Thomas on board, returned the case this week to the lower court as moot.
But that wasn't enough for Justice G man. He called Title 42 "the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country" And then he really ripped into governors and legislators who were just trying to keep Americans alive in the face of a virus, which at the time was killing people and had no vaccine to prevent the spread:
“Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale,” and “governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes.” They shuttered businesses and schools, he continued, and “threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions, too.”
We don't know how Justice G felt about concentration camps for Japanese Americans, or when Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, but not letting people pray in mega churches with thousands of seats when getting into an elevator with two people could end up killing you really frosted Judge G's ass a little bit.
Here's his diatribe, in all its Gorsuch-gory hyperbole.
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This will make for an excellent section in a book about or by Gorsuch
ReplyDeleteDo you expect people to take you as serious when you describe legislation, judges, decisions, and public discussions in demeaning, childish ways. I assume that we will soon have a chorus of your fellow traveling worshipers,writing about how brilliant and witty you are. Your style is simply childish and annoying. So, I guess I will just have to join so many others and not open your blog. Bye
ReplyDelete10:53 you don't get the blog
ReplyDeleteWhat's Love Got To Do With It?
ReplyDelete"Getting into an elevator with two people can KILL you".
ReplyDeleteLol. The narcissism of obese boomers knows no bounds. Even among this red-in-face, flabby-in-belly cohort of olds, whose last physical exercise was fist pumping to the Eagles reunion at Hard Rock Casino in 2006, the covid fatality rate was something like 0.02%.
Oh no! We had better allow the federal government to oversee permission to gather, to exercise religion, to associate with others... or a boomer one golf round away from a coronary may suffer an increased risk of mortality of 0.018%. Here big brother! Take my rights! Please!
The real icing on the cake is reading these same folks, desperate for the federal government to dad us all around, wrap us in diapers and protect all the little babies, turn on their heel and accuse right wingers of being "fascists".
A million Americans died you moron. More than in the Vietnam war in much less time. Unfortunately, a few stupid ones managed to survive. But there's hope, because I am sure you didn't get a vaccine because you haven't studied what is in it, right genius?
ReplyDeleteRight now , May 2023 over a Hundred people a day are dying in the United States because of Covid . That’s at least 36,400 Americans this year will die of Covid. Get the vaccine
ReplyDelete10:53. Look in the mirror, you’re a NERD
ReplyDeleteThe posts and comments where you wish death on someone because they disagree with you do you no credit, Rumpole.
ReplyDeleteYour blog, your rules. Knock your socks off. But it diminishes you.
First of all where in a post did I wish death on someone ? As to the comments i understand how my comment in this thread can be interpreted as such and you’re right it’s not my finest hour. But sometime these COVID deniers get under my skin when they diminish the toll of death COVID has taken.
ReplyDeleteRumpole the comment you posted @821, no one is diminishing the toll of death Covid took, but you do realise in some countries, the death toll was higher especially those who were in long term care centers where getting a simple cold could kill them or those who had underlying health problems. Its almost as if the world forgot the millions of people who died of pneumonia before any one of us knew what Covid was. And what about the people who die of cancer each year? Are their lives any less significant? You know what gets under my skin- ppl are still talking about Covid. No one gives a shit about it anymore, at least I don't. Its like all the other people whose death was not Covid related, didnt matter.
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