Fox News host Tucker Carlson has blasted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a “cringing little liberal” for voting to uphold a health care vaccine mandate.
Trump-appointed Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the three liberal justices on the court for the ruling, as highlighted by the Washington Examiner.
The SCOTUS voted to allow a vaccine mandate for medical facilities that take Medicare or Medicaid payments.
Speaking about the ruling with attorney Harmeet Dhillon during his show, Carlson chimed in, “With no help from Brett Kavanaugh, I notice.
“Cringing little liberal.”
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Though Kavanaugh sided with the liberals on the health care mandate, he joined the conservatives to successfully block a Biden administration mandate that would have forced private businesses with at least 100 employees to require workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to regular testing.
“OSHA’s COVID–19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard, 86 Fed. Reg. 61402, is stayed pending disposition of the applicants’ petitions for review in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and disposition of the applicants’ petitions for writs of certiorari, if such writs are timely sought,” the court decided.
“Should the petitions for writs of certiorari be denied, this order shall terminate automatically. In the event the petitions for writs of certiorari are granted, the order shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.”
Notably, conservatives rallied around Justice Kavanaugh in 2018 amid allegations during his confirmation hearings.
Accuser Christine Blasey Ford told Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in a letter that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a house party when the pair were teenagers, sometime in the early 1980s.
Ford could not recall key details about the alleged attack and there was no evidence to support her claims.
The dubious claim was uncorroborated, and the Senate Judiciary Committee ultimately found that there was “no evidence to substantiate any of the claims.”
“In neither the committee’s investigation nor in the supplemental background investigation conducted by the FBI was there ANY evidence to substantiate or corroborate any of the allegations,” the Committee said.
Other conservatives voiced frustration with Kavanaugh over the vaccine mandate, too.
“I despise Brett Kavanaugh,” radio host Jesse Kelly commented.
“We should have left him for the wolves. Freaking loser.”
“America First patriots and [President] Trump rallied fiercely to Brett Kavanaugh at his crucible moment, and he’s been a disappointment ever since,” Steve Cortes said.
“It was disappointing to see Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh join the Court’s liberals to uphold a mandate that targets health care workers,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) posted.
“America’s businesses should forget these mandates faster than Joe Biden forgets his daily schedule.”
Phil Kerpen questioned how the justice could come to his decision.
“How in the world did Roberts and Kavanaugh disagree with this? Baffling,” he wrote.
