Ivy League Justice

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be. Despite an impressive Ivy League pedigree (Princeton undergrad, Yale Law School), Sotomayor earned “four Pinocchios” from the Washington Post for claiming that “We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators,” when—according to government data—the actual number of children hospitalized with COVID at the time was less than 5,000. Read Full Article »