WASHINGTON– The Supreme Court got rid of the pandemic-related immigration case with one verdict.

Judge Neil Gorsuch had much more to say, sharply criticizing the way governments, from small towns to the nation’s capital, have responded to the biggest public health threat in a century.

The judge, a 55-year-old conservative who was President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, called the emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis, which has killed more than 1 million Americans, perhaps “the greatest assault on civil liberties in the history of peace.” time.” this country.”

He pointed to orders to close schools, limit church services, make vaccines mandatory, and ban evictions. His volleys were aimed at local, state and federal officials – even his colleagues.

“Executive officials across the country have issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale,” Gorsuch wrote on Thursday in an eight-page statement that accompanied a pending Supreme Court ruling formally closing a case involving the use of Section 42 policy to prevent infiltration of asylum seekers. , to country. United States.

The policy was terminated last week with the expiration of the public health emergency first declared over three years ago due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Since starting his tenure on the Supreme Court in 2017, Gorsuch, a Colorado native who enjoys skiing and cycling, has been more inclined than most justices to part ways with his colleagues, both left and right.

During his six years as a judge, he largely voted with other conservatives, joining the majority that reversed the decision against Roe. Wade and expanded gun rights last year.

But he took a different course on some issues, writing a 2020 court opinion that extended federal protections against discrimination in the workplace to include LGBTQ people. He also joined liberal judges in support of Native American rights.

When the omicron option skyrocketed in late 2021 and early 2022, Gorsuch was the only judge to show up in the courtroom without a mask, even though his neighbor Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who has diabetes, reportedly did not feel safe in close contact with people who were not clothed. masks

So Sotomayor, who continues to wear a mask in public, did not take a seat with the other judges in January 2022. The two judges denied reports that they were at odds on the issue.

The emergency orders that Gorsuch complained about were first announced in the early days of the pandemic when Trump was president and months before the virus was well understood and a vaccine was developed.

The essence of his complaint is not new. He has previously written on individual cases brought to court during the pandemic, sometimes disagreeing with orders that upheld emergency orders.

Judges have intervened in several COVID-related cases.

When Gorsuch and five other conservatives were in the majority, they lifted the moratorium on evictions and blocked the Biden administration’s plan to require employees of large companies to be vaccinated or wear masks and undergo regular tests. After Amy Coney Barrett joined the court, after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg they lifted restrictions on religious services in some areas.

By a vote of 5 to 4, disagreed by Gorsuch and three of his conservative colleagues, the court allowed the administration to require many medical workers to be vaccinated.

But on Thursday, Gorsuch collected his complaints in one place, writing about the lessons he hoped to learn from the past three years.

“One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for security are powerful forces. They can lead to a call to action – almost any action – if someone does something to eliminate the perceived threat. A leader or expert who claims he can fix everything if we only do exactly as he says can be an unstoppable force,” he wrote.

Another possible lesson he wrote: “The concentration of power in the hands of a small number of people can be effective and sometimes popular. But this is not conducive to healthy government.”

He also had strong words for the Republican-led states that were trying to keep the Section 42 policy and the five conservative judges whose votes extended the policy five months after it would have otherwise ended at the end of December.

“At the very least, it is to be hoped that the judiciary will not soon allow itself to become part of the problem again by allowing litigants to manipulate our list of cases to perpetuate a ruling meant for one emergency to solve another,” Gorsuch wrote.

In the last paragraph of his statement, Gorsuch acknowledged, but only reluctantly, that emergency orders are sometimes needed. “Make no mistake—strong executive action is sometimes necessary and appropriate. But if emergency decrees promise to solve some problems, they threaten to create others,” he wrote.

Jennifer Garner has just unveiled a casual summer take on one of this year’s sexiest trends: open corset dresses.

On May 18, Garner walked out in a light, off-the-shoulder corset dress at the Charter Oak Hotel in St. Helena, California for the Rockout/Knockout Cancer event hosted by Garner and Elise Walker to raise money for St. Helena Hospital. Foundation and early detection of cancer. Alexander McQueen’s dress, which sells for $3490features a midi skirt, corseted bodice with visible underwire, and perhaps most importantly, pockets!

While the visible corset lends a modern edge to the summer dress, Garner has looked the part for the past three decades in brown platform sandals, gold bangles and hoop earrings. She completed the classic ensemble with light, shimmery makeup and wore a shoulder-length bob in loose waves. Now that’s all how you take a trend and make it last forever.

Jennifer Garner is currently filming an Apple TV+ miniseries. The last thing he said to menear Game of Thrones actor Nikolai Coster-Waldau. During a recent interview with People, Garner opened up about the prank that Coster-Waldau played on her while filming the emotional drama. “I talked to Josh [Singer], and it seemed to me that the background player came up and sat next to me,” Garner shared. And Josh started to smile. And this person became more and more comfortable around me, and I thought, “I don’t know you.”

It turns out that it was Coster-Waldau in a completely new image. “I immediately was just… I was so shocked. He had a beard,” she explained. “They were checking his appearance for the last scene. And he just totally, totally took me by surprise. And, you know, I cried and yelled at them. And then we moved on.”

JanRoth: Herpes on the lips can be embarrassing and hard to hide. But it turns out you may not have reason to be embarrassed.

Preetish Tosh, MD, Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic: About 70+ percent of the US population is infected with herpes simplex virus 1. Now, a very small percentage of these people will actually develop herpes.

JanRoth: Dr. Preetish Tosh, an infectious disease specialist at the Mayo Clinic, says genetics determine whether a person develops herpes.

Dr. Tosh: Part of the population doesn’t have the right immunological genes and the like, so they can’t handle the virus as well as other people in the population.

JanRoth: The problem is that people can spread the herpes virus whether they have herpes or not. The herpes virus is spread through physical contact, such as kissing, sharing a toothbrush, and even sharing a drinking glass, or through sexual contact.

Dr. Tosh: Because the number of people who are infected but asymptomatic far outnumbers those who are infected and have symptoms, the majority of new transmission occurs from people who are unaware they are infected.

For the Mayo Clinic News Network, my name is Ian Roth.