So we are recording on Thursday, January 27th. It's 2 o'clock in the afternoon and what are we going to talk about this time?

All right, well, the Supreme Court justices appeared in person earlier this month for an unusual oral argument.

And there are two strange things about it.

One, Justice Gorsuch was the only justice there

who didn't wear a mask. And two, Justice Sotomayor wasn't there at all.

And according to reporting from NPR,

Chief Justice Roberts knew that Justice Sotomayor

didn't feel comfortable in your people without masks.

Because she's a diabetic, and that means she's at high risk

for COVID complications if she were to get sick. And the Chief Justice reportedly asked, quote, in some form for the

other justices to wear masks, and Gorsich chose not to. And because Gorsich wouldn't wear a mask,

Sotomayor stayed away and she's been remote.

She usually sits next to Gorsuch at oral argument.

Now, after that reporting

Sotomayor and Gorsuch issued a statement, an unusual one. The two

stated that they were warm colleagues and friends and she said she didn't ask him to wear a mask and that's kind of

weird because nobody was reporting that she asked him to wear a mask and then

the Chief Justice issued a statement saying he didn't ask Gorsuch to wear a mask on the bench.

So I guess it boils down to who are you going to believe the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States or NPR.

Right. But I think that story is sort of funny because it's beside the point, right? Why won't Justice Gorsuch wear a mask?

Shouldn't you do that for a warm colleague and friend?

And if he won't wear a mask, why does he get to show up?

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