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MSNBC host Joy Reid was infuriated Thursday over the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, launching a rant against what she called “right-wing ideologues” occupying six of the court’s nine seats.
During a segment of her show “The ReidOut,” Reid declared she no longer had faith in the court, calling it a “Christian nationalist version” of what it used to be, and suggested the justices should each have their own “right-wing talk radio shows.” The court struck down a Biden administration mandate for large employers to vaccinate or test their workers, while it did keep in place a vaccine mandate for health care workers at federally funded facilities.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid, former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, and Democratic Rep. Raul Ruiz – January 13, 2022
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“I have to say, I don’t have faith in this Supreme Court. I think they’re ideologues. I think they’re right-wing ideologues. I think they’re sort of doing a Christian nationalist version of whatever it is the Supreme Court used to do,” Reid said during a discussion on the pandemic, referring to the court’s Thursday decision to block the mandate.
She played a video clip of Biden citing positive benefits of the mandate in the workplace, noting a low number of hospitalizations and deaths reported by United Airlines, a company that required all of its employees to be vaccinated.
“I mean, the administration had made an estimate that the mandate would result in 22 million people getting vaccinated and prevent 250,000 hospitalizations. The usual six voted the way we would expect them to vote, the six right-wingers,” Reid said after playing the clip.
“At this point … have they not just simply stated by their actions that they are more in favor of right-wing politics … than they are in favor of saving lives? They don’t really care if this causes less…
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