Left-Leaning Fact-Checker Nails Justice Sotomayor Over Wildly False Claim about Children, COVID-19

PolitiFact, a left-leaning fact-checker, swiftly corrected Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor over a wildly false claim she made on Friday.

While hearing oral arguments for and against President Joe Biden’s employer vaccine mandate, Sotomayor claimed that 100,000 children in the United States are hospitalized and in “serious condition” with COVID-19.

“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, and many on ventilators,” Sotomayor claimed.

PolitiFact used government data to explain why Sotomayor’s claims are wildly false.