MSNBC’s Joy Reid: ‘Justice Gorsuch Loves Covid, Which Makes Him the Perfect Republican’

‘He thinks very little of coronavirus precautions’

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REID: "Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to the seat that Mitch McConnell stole for him by nuking the filibuster after denying Merrick Garland even a hearing. Gorsuch loves Covid, which makes him the perfect, perfect Republican. He thinks very little of coronavirus precautions. He joined the majority opinion blocking the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for private businesses and joined the dissent against vaccine mandates for health care workers. When the court didn't block Maine's health care mandate last fall, he went full libertarian, writing: 'Stemming the spread of Covid-19 qualifies as a compelling interest. At the same time, I would acknowledge that there — that this interest cannot qualify as such forever. Today, we have additional treatments and more appear near. If human nature and history teach us anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency.'”

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