Supreme Court hearing grows tense as Justice Kagan grills lawyer challenging Biden's vaccine mandate

[BigBearJohn]

https://www.rawstory.com/vaccine-mandate-2656251809/

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan grilled an attorney on Friday who was seeking to overturn President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for workers.

Representing the National Federation of Independent Business, Washington lawyer Scott A. Keller argued against Biden's vaccine or test program administered through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

"Mr. Keller, I guess I just don't see as a situation — you know, a typical arbitrary, capricious situation where we say 'Oh, you didn't consider an alternative carefully enough.' We all know what the best policy is. By this point, two years later, we know that the best way to prevent spread is to get vaccinated. And to prevent dangerous illness and death, is for people to get vaccinated. That is by far the best."

[elleng]

1. Justice Kagan does well (naturally.)

Chief Roberts discusses decently.

[madville]

2. The only issue I had with her arguments today

Was when she stated that being vaccinated prevents someone from being a carrier of the virus and prevents them from transmitting it to others. We know that’s not accurate, especially with Omicron.

"All the secretary is doing here is to say to providers, 'you know what, basically, the only thing you can't do is to kill your patients. So you have to get vaccinated so that you're not transmitting the disease that can kill elderly Medicare patients, that can kill sick Medicaid patients,'" she said. "That seems like a pretty basic infection prevention measure: you can't be the carrier of disease."

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/live-updates/supreme-court-covid-19-vaccine-rule-biden/

[WarGamer]

4. multiple Justices on SCOTUS repeated woo today... sorry to say it.

[madville]

5. Just about all of them said something false

The fact checkers probably just gave up. I’m sure everything Thomas said was false without even looking. Sotomayor said 100,000 children are currently in serious condition, many on ventilators, good grief.

A high profile case like this and they can’t even get the basic facts right.

[Trueblue1968]

3. KAGAN IS THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! !!!! ! ! !