So we are recording on Thursday, January 27th.

It's two 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 were two strange things about it.

One, Justice Corsuch 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

a mask.

And Gorsuch chose not to.

And because Gorsuch 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.

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