I bet you think I’m going to talk all about the Supreme Court oral arguments yesterday, but I’m not. That story has been over-covered anyway. Who cares?
Haha, just kidding! I’ll briefly explain everything non-lawyers need to know about the arguments and give you my prognostications (for what they’re worth). All you need to know in one (kind of) short post.
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It must also have been extremely vexing for those of you who listened in NOT to have heard mention of a lot of critical information that is VERY significant, like, um, the lack of severity of OMICRON? Or not hearing any of the States’ lawyers pushing back on the ill-informed liberal Justices’ factual claims. Or hearing the Justices talking over each other, which happened a lot toward the beginning of the arguments.
I’ll explain each of those phenomena for you. They don’t mean what you think they mean. It’s all good.
Jeff Childers’ entire January 8 post was devoted to the Supreme Court oral arguments. So just go to the blog post to see what he said about it. It’s highly recommended, and you might feel better about the situation for having done so.
Sources:
- January 7, 2022. “NFIB v. OSHA, Ohio v. OSHA.” Oral arguments 21A244, 21A247. United States of America: Supreme Court.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2021/21a244_kifl.pdf.
Judgment, PDF. - January 8, 2022. Jeff Childers. “☕️ Coffee & Covid ☙ Saturday, January 8, 2022 ☙ ORAL ARGUMENTS 🦠.” ☕️ Coffee & Covid 2021 🦠.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-coffee-and-covid-saturday-january-2be.
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