SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor ‘Fact-Checked’ Over False COVID-19 Claim

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor inaccurately claimed “over 100,000 children” are “in serious condition” because of COVID-19, sparking a rare fact-check of the Obama-appointed judge as some accused her of spreading misinformation. Sotomayor made the remarks on Jan. 7 while hearing lawsuits that were filed against the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate that would force private businesses with 100 or more workers to require them to be tested weekly or get the vaccine. “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…