Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not ask her colleague and seatmate on the bench, Justice Neil Gorsuch, to wear a mask during the omicron surge, according to a rare joint statement.
The Supreme Court of the United States was created and vested by Article III of the Constitution.Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not ask her colleague and seatmate on the bench, Justice Neil Gorsuch, to wear a mask during the omicron surge, according to a rare joint statement issued Wednesday.
"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," they said in a rare joint statement.Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch arrives at the 59th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2021.
Fox News' Shannon Bream reports, citing a separate unnamed source, that's not true and that no request went out from Roberts and that Sotomayor never asked Gorsuch herself. From October through December, all nine justices convened on the bench together -- and only Sotomayor wore a mask at that time. She sat next to a maskless Gorsuch and Justice Stephen Breyer, among others.
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