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General Category => National/Breaking News => SCOTUS News => Topic started by: Elderberry on January 11, 2022, 03:56:05 am
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Fox News by Joseph A. Wulfsohn 1/10/2022
SCOTUS updates transcript after liberals accuse Gorsuch of saying flu kills 'hundreds of thousands' of people
The official transcript was revised after it initially misquoted the associate justice
Liberals and members of the media rushed to attack Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, falsely accusing him of saying the flu kills "hundreds of thousands" of people every year.
During Friday's SCOTUS hearing on the case challenging the Biden administration's vaccine mandate, Gorsuch made the point that vaccines for other diseases were never mandated by the government and how OSHA has never required one for the flu, which the justice pointed out kills "hundreds, thousands of people every year."
However, the remark was perceived by Gorsuch's critics as him saying the flu is far more deadly than it actually was.
However, the official transcript was revised Monday, swapping "hundreds of thousands" to "hundreds, thousands."
Newsweek senior reporter James Lemon issued an apology to Gorsuch and "significantly adjusted" his article and denied he has any political animus.
More: https://www.foxnews.com/media/neil-gorsuch-scotus-transcript-flu (https://www.foxnews.com/media/neil-gorsuch-scotus-transcript-flu)
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So, the only justice who was spewing falsehoods left and right was, unsurprisingly, Sotomayor.