Justice Sotomayor Claims Not to Understand the Distinction Between State and Federal

[Chris]

If this is true, she really doesn't understand the difference, she should step down as a justice. Unbelievable.

Justice Sotomayor Claims Not to Understand the Distinction Between State and Federal Powers

...The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) rule states that employers of 100 or more workers must either require employees to be vaccinated, or force unvaccinated employees to submit to weekly testing and masking in the workplace....

Critics, including the plaintiffs, submit that the rule represents federal and bureaucratic overreach. On Friday morning, Sotomayor expressed her dissatisfaction and puzzlement at that critique.

“I’m not sure I understand the distinction why the states would have the power [to institute a mandate such as OSHA’s], but the federal government wouldn’t,” stated the associate justice.

When Ohio solicitor general Ben Flowers began to explain that the federal government lacks police powers, Sotomayor cut him off, exclaiming that that it has “power with respect to protecting the health and safety of workers. ”

“We have accept[ed] the constitutionality of OSHA,” continued Sotomayor, who eventually insisted that the federal government has “a police power to protect workers,” over Flowers’s objections.

Those objections are rooted in the Tenth Amendment, which states that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” In constitutional law, these are frequently referred to as “police powers,” and refer to efforts to regulate the health, safety, and morals of the populace....

[Ethereal]

“We have accept[ed] the constitutionality of OSHA,” continued Sotomayor, who eventually insisted that the federal government has “a police power to protect workers,” over Flowers’s objections.

So what? What does that prove?

[The Xl]

She's a lawless lunatic. She shouldn't be on the Supreme Court.

[stjames1_53]

.....early onset of Alzheimer's?

[Common Sense]

Well there’s a dishonest thread title.

She clearly didn’t imply that she didn’t know the difference between state and federal. She’s disputing the powers of the federal government when it comes to OSHA. Which is an agency that is part of the department of labor.

Twisting the truth is one thing…but outright lying is another. So much for integrity.

[stjames1_53]

Well there’s a dishonest thread title.

She clearly didn’t imply that she didn’t know the difference between state and federal. She’s disputing the powers of the federal government when it comes to OSHA. Which is an agency that is part of the department of labor.

Twisting the truth is one thing…but outright lying is another. So much for integrity.

No one forces you in here................there are a multitude of forums where your statement might be considered relevant

[FindersKeepers]

.....early onset of Alzheimer's?

Maybe, but odds are, she's just not all that bright.

Or, she's inherently dishonest.

She recently said Omicron was just as deadly as prior strains of covid--something the CDC has disputed--and she said 100,000 children were in ICUs with many of them on ventilators.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor came under withering criticism Friday after she falsely suggested that upwards of 100,000 children in the United States are hospitalized from COVID-19, many of them on ventilators.
During oral arguments on the Biden administration's mandate on private businesses for employees to be either vaccinated or frequently tested, Sotomayor drastically overstated the number of young people who have fallen severely ill from coronavirus.
"We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators," she said.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/sonia-...spitalizations

Either way, she doesn't belong on the bench.

[FindersKeepers]

No one forces you in here................there are a multitude of forums where your statement might be considered relevant

LOL

Some come just to attack without rhyme or reason.

Or, as in this case -- without logic.

[Peter1469]

If this is true, she really doesn't understand the difference, she should step down as a justice. Unbelievable.

Justice Sotomayor Claims Not to Understand the Distinction Between State and Federal Powers

That is a problem in general in the United States. People do not know what federalism means in the context of the United States. That a Supreme Court Justice does not just understand the concept, and not enforce it on the Court is unacceptable and grounds for impeachment. It is gross incompetence.

This must become a line of inquiry at confirmation hearings. Potential justices must be quizzed on meaning of the word and how federalize works in the US. Then they must publicly commit to upholding it. This is non-negotiable.

[Peter1469]

“We have accept[ed] the constitutionality of OSHA,” continued Sotomayor, who eventually insisted that the federal government has “a police power to protect workers,” over Flowers’s objections.

So what? What does that prove?

The federal government doesn't have police powers outside of federal land, federal property, or the federal special maritime areas.