Roberts, Gorsuch, Sotomayor all deny NPR report about mask wearing inside Supreme Court

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Journalist Nina Totenberg says NPR stands by her reporting.


WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — All three Supreme Court justices involved in an NPR report alleging internal strife over masking have issued statements declaring the story to be entirely false, but the taxpayer-funded news outlet refuses to retract it.

On Tuesday, NPR’s Nina Totenberg reported that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, whose diabetes is a risk factor for COVID-19, “did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked. Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other justices to mask up,” yet Justice Neil Gorsuch refused to comply despite the fact that he “sits next to Sotomayor on the bench. His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices’ weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone.”

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Roberts, Gorsuch, Sotomayor all deny NPR report about mask wearing inside Supreme Court - LifeSite

 

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This Forum is a place for respectful discussion and debate of political issues, by Roman Catholics, in the context of the Roman Catholic Faith.

Journalist Nina Totenberg says NPR stands by her reporting.


WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — All three Supreme Court justices involved in an NPR report alleging internal strife over masking have issued statements declaring the story to be entirely false, but the taxpayer-funded news outlet refuses to retract it.

On Tuesday, NPR’s Nina Totenberg reported that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, whose diabetes is a risk factor for COVID-19, “did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked. Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other justices to mask up,” yet Justice Neil Gorsuch refused to comply despite the fact that he “sits next to Sotomayor on the bench. His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices’ weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone.”

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Roberts, Gorsuch, Sotomayor all deny NPR report about mask wearing inside Supreme Court - LifeSite

The biggest red flag for me was not NPR holding firm to a false news story; but that the other media sources that ran with this story with absolutely no independent fact checking have not issued any retractions. The lie that gets repeated and not denied becomes truth. Biden, like Trump are not weeds in the garden of our society; but emblematic of the groups that they represent. Trump's populist view of patriotism is just as susceptible to demagoguery as Biden's. The only difference is that Trump was not a career politician and so was not as practiced at smiling while he spun the truth.