By Ariane de Vogue | CNNSupreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor issued an unusual statement Wednesday asserting there is no tension on the high court around masking and stressing that Sotomayor did not ask Gorsuch to wear a mask while on the bench. In the rare statement, the justices said that “reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends.”The statement came just after the first set of oral arguments Wednesday. Gorsuch appeared, again, without a mask and Sotomayor participated remotely from her chambers, as she has done this month amid a surge in the Omicron variant of Covid-19. CNN has reported that Sotomayor did not ask Gorsuch directly to wear a mask.

Source: CNN January 19, 2022 20:33 UTC